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Hardcore Importing Action
Github.com added direct Subversion importing given a SVN URL (e.g. from Google Code). It handles the "standard" SVN project layout and brings over all history, tags, and branches. It even allows you to set the SVN authors mapping which is slick.
Novelist Neal Stephenson Once Again Proves He's the King of the Worlds
Excellent article by Steven Levy on Neal Stephenson — in general, and about his upcoming "cinder block", Anathem. Anathem sounds like a very interesting novel and I look forward to reading it.
Amazon Web Services announces Elastic Block Store (EBS)
EBS removes the scary part of EC2 by providing persistent storage (think virtual hard drives). They can range from 1 GB to 1 TB, offer point in time snapshots (differential backups) saved to S3, lazy loading of existing snapshots, striping across EBS volumes, and probably more I didn't discover. Overall it seems like a nice addition to the rest of the web services.
Django 1.0 alpha 2 released!
Django 1.0 alpha 2 was released and contains some nice updates like GeoDjango, Jython compatability, and pluggable file storage. This is the last alpha before the first beta comes out on August 14th. I'm super excited to see 1.0 land.
OpenSSH 5.1
OpenSSH 5.1 is out and with some new features, the most interesting of which is an experimental way of displaying SSH host keys as ASCII art.
Python 3.0 Beta 2 released
Python 3.0 is getting closer and closer.
mysql_cluster
This database backend enables the user of master/slave databases nicely. It includes middleware to send POST requests to the master and most GET requests to the slaves effectively making database writes hit the master and database reads pull from the slaves. It also has nice controls to override this default POST/GET switching at the view level and even at the Python coding level. Overall the impression seems very well done.
Django snippets: Client-side django template with jQuery
A simple snippet that extends the regular expression syntax of the jQuery Template plugin to support Django style templates in jQuery.
mallipeddi's django-yslow at master — GitHub
A very nice Django app following the YSlow recommended best practices for optimizing your website. It includes Django management utilities to minimize and concatenate CSS/JS, version it for cache busting, and upload to S3 and set appropriate expiry and content-encoding headers.
pytoss - Google Code
A remote deployment tool written in Python with a focus more on shell commands than recipes for simplicity.
Django code_swarm on Vimeo
Visualization of Django commit history. I especially liked the near end when the queryset refactor branch landed on trunk and results in a firework like display, then just moments later a couple more fireworks as the other branches merge with trunk.
The Champagne of Blogs » Makin Bacon
I never knew making bacon was such a process. And interesting, entertaining read with pictures to salivate to.
LJWorld.com / New foundation for Django
This is great news for Django and all contributors involved. Django deserves its success. Here's to a great future of Django!
Freelancing Gods: Sphinx: A Primer
A good Sphinx primer.
django-ae-utils - Google Code
Utilities to replace Django's built-in auth and session functionality to use Google App Engine's and Big Table.
django-compress - Google Code
An app with management command to concatenate and compress Javascript and CSS files. It also handles cache busting by appending a date string. I've done this manually with Makefiles but this looks more integrated and easy.
Google Doctype - Google Code
For web developers, by web developers. The wiki has tons of articles on web security, DOM manipulation, CSS, and other various tips and tricks. Lots of great stuff from Mark Pilgrim.
GitPython - Gitorious
Nice work by Michael Trier on GitPython, a python library for interfacing with Git.
iBanjo » Blog Archive » Subversion’s Future?
Git and Mercurial threaten Subversion? It looks like Subversion will still focus on being a good centralized source control system.
Queryset Refactor Branch
Malcolm's Queryset Refactor branch landed on Django's trunk tonight. To mark the occasion I'm bookmarking a link to the page that describes in detail the changes.