Creosote archive for Fri 26 of Aug, 2005

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MochiKit is a highly documented and well tested, suite of JavaScript libraries that will help you get shit done, fast. We took all the good ideas we could find from our Python, Objective-C, etc. experience and adapted it to the crazy world of JavaScript.

CherryPy for CGI programmers

a version of the Lucene search / indexer written in pure python

in python by the looks of it

screencast on changes to django model syntax

formencode and sqlobject: documentation describing a full form display, validation, and insert into a database of new data from said form.

Data visualization tool

This is just too awesome!

Adrian has committed the Django model syntax changes. Current models will have to be rewritten — once — but the new syntax looks a lot cleaner and I think it will reduce the learning curve for newcomers to the platform. Be sure to check out the full documentation as well as a brief screencast highlighting the changes. I will do my best to update my CRUD Generic Views tutorial as soon as possible to reflect the syntax change. Update: Here’s the updated tasks.py

In XML.com: Should Python and XML Coexist?, Uche Ogbuji liberally quotes from and analyzes two of my XML-v.-Python rants, and actually gets it completely right. Since at least one of those rants has been cited as meaning I think XML is the spawn of Satan, I'm glad Uche read closely enough to get the context and nuance, without projecting things into it that I didn't say. Kudos!

Well, we're about as prepared as we're going to get. Nothing to do but wait, and take advantage of the simple amenities like TV, air conditioning, and internet service while they last. I've been doing some OSAF work, and answering emails generally.> >It looks like the storm isn't slowing down, which means it'll get here sooner but be weaker.

Thanks to the folks at Piranha on Riccarton Road for inviting me in and giving me a crash course in coffee evaluation. The new owners (since November) seem to really be into their coffee; Dave and Peter have apparently trained many of the top local baristas. I now have a bit more of an appreciation of what's required to make a good coffee - and what mistakes to look for when other people are making coffee for me.

This is the future and we are wearing new shoes....

Kevin Barnes’ Freedom Languages is one of the best high level takes on the language divide I’ve read in a long time. He nails the major differences between the situation previously referred to as “dynamically vs. statically typed languages”.

Rose has returned from her wanderings. French much improved, considerably better than mine now... trouble is she wants to speak only French at home, so I'm going to have to learn considerably more to get by.

"Python and XML: Should Python and XML Coexist?" In his latest Python and XML column, Uche Ogbuji claims that the costs of using XML as a little language in a Python application may outweigh the benefits of doing so. [Aug. 25, 2005] In this article I discuss some of the recent round of complaints about XML in the Python community, trying to give perspective that Python and XML should serve very different domains.

The Law of the Driver (which has just occurred to me) states: Over time, the distance between a PC peripheral device and the driver CD that came with it, approaches infinity.

In a public media like the Web, on a network of peers like the Internet, the same public name may be described differently by a resource depending on the context in which it is named. What the Semantic Web lacked since its inception is a system to resolve public resource descriptions, allowing contextual dissent.

Kevin Barnes' Freedom languages (via Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants) is very interesting. Read it. ;-)

"Integrated scm, wiki, issue tracker and project environment"

"OpenRelease automates the packaging, release and announcements of Open Source software."

"Python Internet Programming Library"

"Config file reading, writing, and validation."

"A GUI application for chemometrics"

"Python Bindings for the GTK Widget Set..."

"OpenWFE is a workflow engine. It is robust, extensible, and scalable. Access libraries for Python, Perl, and .NET make it easy to write custom interfaces or agents (automatic participants) for a workflow-enabled system."

"This module is called with a string message and it is written to a file with a date and timestamp . After a certain number of entries , it creates a backup of the file . ..."

"Starts a timer that can be stopped or acts upon time - out . ..."

"Tool for automatically creating python modules packages"

"Python bindings for the xine media player"

Someone once asked me if Python is safer than Java. This person was a high up marketing VP from an ad agency (waves to KH). She lead a team of Java developers and I was trying to talk her into considering the move to Python for web-development.

At www.pycon.org/talks/, you can browse through a collection of recorded talks from PyCon 2005. They'd probably be more accessible to the community if they were available as podcasts. Does anyone out there want to work on producing the right RSS...

With the help of a document describing the changes between Atom 0.3 and 1.0, I've updated this weblog's feed to Atom 1.0. You can download the Movable Type 2.661 template as atom-1.0.xml. Unfortunately, I can't think of any good way...

Jeff Atwood extolls the virtues of Microsoft Log Parser. It provides a SQL syntax for querying log files of diverse heritages. It sounds very cool, and damn handy. From a quick look through the source he provides, I didn't see how to plug in new input parsers, though the architecture diagram he shows has a block for them. With CSV and XML inputs available, I guess you could transform anything you like into something it could eat even without plugins.

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