Archive for September, 2008

Where to for this Blog

This blog is getting very untidy and its spanning a lot of subjects: Python, Ruby, Rails, Django, Asterisk, PHP, agile development, and even martial arts! All the advice about blogs says to keep onto a single subject. So I’d be very grateful if you’d vote in the poll to the left so I know what [...]

New Design

The old one was getting boring and I’ve been taking tips from ProBlogger.  Hoping to implement a few changes over the next day or so. Thank you for your patience.

Latest Ruby WWW::Mechanize Released (0.7.8)

For those not knowing what I’m on about: Mechanize is a stunning little library which is great for automating web navigation and is especially suited to handling forms. The latest version addresses a couple of bugs and is available here: Mechanize.

Django 1.0′s Top 5 Changes

Well yesterday saw the release of the much anticipated Django 1.0.  Many years in the making its been well worth the wait.  Now although there’s been numerous changes I’ve condensed this to the top 5 changes: 1. Django Comments Although this has been available in some form for a while it’s recently undergone major changes [...]

Vimrecover – Nice Gem

Its easy to forget some of the best discoveries are made simply by browsing RubyForge.  This is now exception.  Its a nice little Ruby Gem to help Vim users to compare and manage their swp files.  These are produced as you’re editing a file and so if the session dies or there’s a crash then [...]

Python GUI Programming? Painful

If you’re wanting to develop a Python GUI anytime soon can I strongly suggest you re/learn Java. I recently wanted to produce a simple yet functional desktop app and decided to give Python a go. I’d later py2exe my creation to create an executable Win32 app. My thinking was that Python is much faster to [...]