Quickies

A cool article from DevX by Scott Scriven who shows you how to roll a database wrapper in Python that lets you make pythonic database calls.

Enthought Edition Python for Windows, a distribution which includes a lot of useful libraries like PIL, ZODB, and Gadfly. This looks quite new.

Over the weekend I finally tweaked my css to overcome an annoying bug in IE which doesn’t render the entire page if you’re using a div with float:x. I knew about the problem when I first launched the site, but I forgot about it since I use firefox. I’m setting up something new though and during the testing of that I ran across the problem again. There are a whole swag of potential solutions for it around, and while I found one that cured the front page, other bits of the site, including creosote and the new section still wouldn’t render properly. Zeldman has a good discussion of the problem in Designing with Web Standards. Based on the advice in the book I abandoned trying to use float:x for the main content column and instead rendered the sidebar on the site with absolution positioning. The nice thing about the change is that I rolled it our site wide with just a single file tweak.

Of course my ISP’s transparent cache means I can’t actually check it now that I’ve uploaded it to make sure that it’s ok, but if it’s egregiously wrong, I’m pretty sure someone will let me know.

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