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.

How Could I Forget – Pony Power!!

I heard about this at PyCon during the Django talk.  Its pink, fluffy, goodness – Pony Power!!!

Python’s BaseHTTPServer a Nagios Replacement

I’ve only just noticed this and I’ve been coding Python for a couple of years now.  I’m talking about BaseHTTPServer.  Now why I’m mentioning Nagios too is this: the library works on all OS’s (the ones that matter) and it can perform system commands before returning the output to the user as a simple HTTP [...]

The Decision

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 [...]

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 [...]

PyCon UK 2008

PyConUK is just around the corner and the early bird tickets are only on sale until August 4th so be sure to get your tickets soon. You can get the latest on the talks here: PyCon Talks The Friday schedule of tutorials is available here: Tutorials. This year Jacob Caplan Moss will be doing the [...]

Django Found’s….

A Foundation!! Putting aside my grammatically dodgy statement the Django Project (the b3zt framework evaz!) has created the Django Foundation.  A non-profit organisation in the same vein as Mozilla, Apache, etc it aims to oversee the development, direction and future of the Django project. You can find out more about the groups goals at the [...]

Parsing Time Using Python

I’ve spotted a great little Python module available at the Google Project hosting site.  It enables you to parse English date and time information into Python date objects.  Similar to the feature of many online calendars where you can say “2 days from now” and have it know what you mean. Get it here.

Google App Engine

I didn’t manage to get into the first 10k people so I had to make do with the goodie bag (SDK) and be on my way for now. Form what I’m reading it looks incredible!!!  Is anyone else realising how amazing this all is?  It’s a playground!!!!  A big Googlely playground for developers to play [...]