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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.
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.
How to Make a Heatmap – a Quick and Easy Solution | FlowingData
I love these articles walking you step by step on using R.
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.
Ultimate IE6 Cheatsheet: How To Fix 25+ Internet Explorer 6 Bugs
Tips and explanations for common IE6 problems.
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.
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.
NodeBox | Library
Lots of interesting bits of Python in this library, including things like linguistic analysis and semantic networks.
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.
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+.
Elements of Statistical Learning
The 2nd version of this classic book on data mining, inference, and prediction. And for free.
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.
django-safeform
CSRF protection for Django implemented at the form level - no middleware required.
Cache algorithms - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Overview of various caching algorithms.
A Guide to Branching in Mercurial / Steve Losh
So far the most clear and detailed explanation of Mercurial branching options.
Celestia: Home
The free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions.
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.
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.
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.
MPOAuthConnection
MPOAuthConnection is a drop in cocoa component for Mac and iPhone apps to talk to OAuth web services