Having got myself a G1 phone a few weeks back I’ve been tinkering a lot. Mainly with the Android Scripting Environment that I plan on writing about soon but I thought I’d give a quick summary of what I’ve found so far on this platform – and why I don’t like it (kind of)! It [...]
This looks very sexy – almost as sexy as DjangoPony. Its a debug toolbar that was inspired by the PHP Symphony project. Hold on now, don’t run away just cos I mentioned PHP. This is pure Python goodness and its damn useful too. It provides a load of debug info such as headers, exec time, [...]
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() [...]
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 [...]
I’ll not soil this posting with talk of copyrighted works and will keep it to strictly free, ebooks available to all. These are the top 15: Dive Into Python – The original but not the best anymore. It taught me Python so I’ve got fond memories and a special place in my heart for it. [...]
Found a nice snippet at the DjangoSnippets site that shows how to integrate your Django app with PayPal. See the magic here.
Looks like Python is everywhere – even OpenOffice. The PyUNO Bridge enables you to interact with the OOo API to extend its functionality. Its feature complete but undergoing testing – get involved.
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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