Google App Engine Spawn
Huge list of open source projects that have spawned for the Google App Engine platform. You can view the list here: GAE Projects
Archive for December, 2008
Saturday Code Quote: 5
Giant chickens… // make that big fucking chicken chase the mouse From Chickens for Linux
Google Test Automation Conference
Great selection of slides and videos here for anyone interested in the recent automated testing and test driven development conference held by Google. Just some of the included talks are “How to Test an AJAX Application“, “Boosting Your Testing Productivity with Groovy“, “Context-Driven Test Automation” and many more – roughly 15. Well worth a look [...]
Python Virtual Host Creator
I just threw together a quick Python script which generates a virtual host file, enables it, creates the web directory and restarts the webserver. It’s basic – but I found it useful. Maybe someone else will too. #!/usr/bin/python import os, sys, getopt def main(argv): try: opts, args = getopt.getopt(argv, “hd:a:”, ["help", "domain="]) except getopt.GetoptError: usage() [...]
Python 3.0 Breaks Backwards Compat
But has lots of shiny new thigns to play with. You can see Python.orgs announcement. And read Ars take. My Take It feels like its been in development for a lifetime and its hard to believe its finally come around. Some highlights include: Print is now a function so must be called like: print(“Doug is [...]
Saturday Code Quote: 4
GTK is rubbish anyway – use Qt. /* Seriously, why can’t non-gtk-apps at least try to be decent citizens? Take this fucking OpenOffice.org 1.9 for example. The morons responsible for this utter piece of crap gave the clip size wrong values! :’( */ From the source of Rezlooks – A GTK theme engine.
Top Developer Hosts
I’ve been through a hell of a lot of different hosts in the past few years so I thought I’d give my take on what to go for. I will state first off that I currently use: Slicehost and Linode. Slicehost They recently announced their takeover by Rackspace and although that worries me they have [...]
Worst VPS Hosts
CheapVPS / A2B2 / VAServe This is a UK company and I’d heard great things about their service at the WHT forums. Unfortunately it didn’t go well and I’m no longer with them. Here’s my key gripes: Poorly designed ‘out of the box’ management systems. These were just confusing. It took 15 minutes for me [...]
