Archive for November, 2008

Mercurial vs Git

Personally I’m more a fan of Mercurial with the main reason being: Portability. As far as I know Git still has problems handling Windows which is something Mercurial has never had to worry about.  So I can switch between multiple different environments without worrying about my SCM falling down. Another reason is the name and [...]

Switching From Rails to Django: Why?

Rails is crap.  There – I said it.  Apologies to the geek with a peanut dick but it just sucks really bad. Compared to PHP – Rails is Great Yeah it is great – its epic in fact.  But then again that isn’t very hard is it considering how shit PHP is? Stop Stealing Ruby’s [...]

Django 1.0.1

The latest release of Django is here: 1.0.1 Summary of Changes: Comment module fixes. Oracle interface fixes. In-line form fixes. Lots more fixes!! Docs updated.

Saturday Code Quote: 1

This is going to be the first in a series of funny source code comments I happen to stumble across.  First up is the Apache Jakarta project… Someone’s not flushing the office toilet – eew: /** * A Writer based on a wrapped Writer but ignoring requests to * close() and flush() it. (Someone must [...]

Open Source Asterisk CRM Platform

Built in PHP this Asterisk CRM looks pretty wicked.  Its an open source Customer Relationship Management application which hooks into an Asterisk PBX.  It looks nicer than I sound though so I’ll shut up and slap you with some pretty pictures… The Info Link

13 OS Reviews in Seconds

After the success of my previous quick-fire review on Ajax frameworks I decided to do another on operating systems. I’m taking a good chunk of Linux, Windows and Mac here. So here’s the no-holds barred reviews on the major OSs. Debian – A proper man’s OS and although the installer doesn’t look friendly its got [...]

SmoothGallery2.0 – Fantastic Ajax Gallery

Looking around for a decent Javascript gallery to use on ‘this site’ – I came across by far the most comprehensive and pleasant to use in: SmoothGallery2.0 It uses the MooTools library and has a slick interface.  The only downside I’d say is that for large sets of images using a Gallery Set it can [...]

Python Templating

I’ve spotted two mentions of Python templates on a well known RSS lately so thought I’d throw together a quick intor of the major ones – partly for me to keep track but I thought I’d help the Pythonistas out too. So here goes… Mako This is the replacement for the Myghty template system and [...]

Python 3 Patterns & Idioms E-Book

I have the feeling this has been aorund a while but in case you haven’t already seen it…  It’s an e-book all about Python 3.  Not much else to say.  I guess you should go and read it.

Managing Cron Jobs – Without Steroids

There’s a funky RubyGem available over on Rubyforge for managing your systems cron jobs.  When I first started to read about it I got confused because it says you add a cron job for the jobmanager which then runs your cron jobs. Madness…not quite. This jobmanager thingy actually provides a great set of tools that [...]