2009 Python Meme

  • December 30th, 2009 (2 months, 1 week ago)

This Python meme was started by Tarek and it sounded thought provoking so I thought I'd join in...

What’s the coolest Python application, framework or library you have discovered in 2009?

I have to say that the Python libraries that changed my day-to-day workflow for me has to be pip and virtualenv. I started using them exclusively when I migrated my MacBook Pro to Snow Leopard, and at the same time reinstalled all the libraries on my Mac. It was then that I decided to use virtualenvs for all my projects, and pip inside each virtualenv to manage ...

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Previously...

Using Vim and Snipmate with Django

  • September 20th, 2009 (5 months, 3 weeks ago)

DjangoCon 2009 Day 3

  • September 12th, 2009 (6 months ago)

DjangoCon 2009 Day 2

  • September 10th, 2009 (6 months ago)

Photos • 2010 Mar 04

Group Skoal

Group Skoal

Photos • 2010 Mar 02

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Photos • 2010 Mar 02

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Photos • 2010 Mar 02

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Link • 2010 Feb 18

Caktus Blog » Archive » Testing Django Views for Concurrency Issues

Always wondered about an easy way to test threading and concurrency issues. This post shows a decorator you can add to your views to simulate N number of threads.

Link • 2010 Feb 14

HTML5 video markup, compatibility and playback

Excellent description of the browser workflow and how to use HTML5 video while falling back to Flash for unsupported browsers/codecs.

Link • 2010 Feb 11

How to Make a Heatmap – a Quick and Easy Solution | FlowingData

I love these articles walking you step by step on using R.

Link • 2010 Feb 09

Django Advent

The site Idan Gazit and I worked on that showcases upcoming features of the next Django release. Built with new-ish technologies like the upcoming Django release, HTML5, and CSS3 -- it was a fun playground for us. All articles are also published in an accompanying GitHub repository under a BSD license. We plan to continue the tradition for future Django releases.

Link • 2010 Jan 06

Ultimate IE6 Cheatsheet: How To Fix 25+ Internet Explorer 6 Bugs

Tips and explanations for common IE6 problems.

Photos • 2010 Jan 02

Backyard at Night

Playing with the tripod and 10 second shutter in my backyard.

Backyard at Night

Link • 2009 Dec 30

CSS String Truncation with Ellipsis

Matt Snider shows how to accomplish a nice UI that keeps its vertical height on long strings by truncating strings with an ellipsis using only CSS on the client side. Complete with Firefox example using XBL and XUL to account for its lack of support for ellipsis using text-overflow.

Photos • 2009 Dec 06

Christmas Tree Ball

Christmas Tree Ball

Link • 2009 Nov 25

Woof - simply exchange files

Very simple local file sharing: `woof filename` serves the file over HTTP once (or configurable number of times), then terminates. It's a single Python script that can live in ~/bin.

Music Track • 2009 Nov 24

Mike Doughty - More Bacon Than The Pan Can Handle

 

Link • 2009 Nov 04

NodeBox | Library

Lots of interesting bits of Python in this library, including things like linguistic analysis and semantic networks.

Photos • 2009 Oct 30

Github Unicorn

Github Unicorn

Link • 2009 Oct 21

Ajaxian » Apple goes live with HTML5 video

Apple is using the HTML5 video tag for their videos on Safari, falling back to Quicktime where the video tag isn't yet supported.

Link • 2009 Oct 16

pympler - Project Hosting on Google Code

Pympler is a development tool to measure, monitor and analyze the memory behavior of Python objects in a running Python application. Pympler integrates three previously separate modules into a single, comprehensive profiling tool. The asizeof module provides basic size information for one or several Python objects, module muppy is used for on-line monitoring of a Python application and module tracker provides off-line analysis of the lifetime of selected Python objects. Python versions 2.4+.

Link • 2009 Oct 15

Elements of Statistical Learning

The 2nd version of this classic book on data mining, inference, and prediction. And for free.

Link • 2009 Oct 13

Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

A book published under the O'Reilly Open Feedback Publishing System (OFPS), with what looks like great tips on customizing your web site to look as much like a native app as possible, using CSS and Javascript.

Music Track • 2009 Sep 29

Dinosaur Jr. - I Want You to Know

 

Link • 2009 Sep 17

django-safeform

CSRF protection for Django implemented at the form level - no middleware required.

Link • 2009 Sep 16

Cache algorithms - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Overview of various caching algorithms.

Link • 2009 Aug 31

A Guide to Branching in Mercurial / Steve Losh

So far the most clear and detailed explanation of Mercurial branching options.

Photos • 2009 Aug 28

Funny puns

Justin and I abusing puns on Twitter. Read bottom up.

Funny puns

Link • 2009 Aug 26

Celestia: Home

The free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions.

Link • 2009 Jul 21

 NASA NEBULA | Services | Services - Overview

Nebula, NASA's cloud computing platform, uses Django. Following the list of open source projects being used here leads to some great and interesting results.

Link • 2009 Jul 17

Alice, the app - VERY MUCH IN CONSTRUCTION

Alice provides a RESTful interface to the RabbitMQ queue server including administration functions. It's written using Mochiweb, an Erlang library for building lightweight HTTP servers.

Music Track • 2009 Jul 07

Ida Maria - I Like You So Much Better When You're Naked

 

Link • 2009 Jul 01

EveryBlock source code released / The EveryBlock Blog

Source code for Everyblock has been released. This is the Knight Foundation grant given to Adrian Holovaty, et al. and built on Django and Python. I'll be spending time reading the source.