4 Items for February 2010
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.
How to Make a Heatmap – a Quick and Easy Solution | FlowingData
I love these articles walking you step by step on using R.
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.
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.