People have asked me a few times about evalexception and pdb — they’d like to be able to use something like pdb through the browser, stepping through code.
The technique I used for tracebacks wouldn’t really work for pdb. For a traceback I saved all the information from the …
For the most part by the time I finished writing my last article on licensing I had mostly convinced myself that the GPL isn’t a practical license for most projects. That is, outcomes when using the GPL aren’t likely to be any better than outcomes using a permissive …
Listening to Tavis Smiley’s show tonight, and the segment My America where they talked about gun violence. At one point they quote a man who lost his brother to gun violence:
You can be in a club and bump into somebody on accident, a little of your liquor, a …
My old do-it-yourself framework tutorial was getting a bit long in the tooth, so I rewrote it to use WebOb. Now: the new do-it-yourself framework.
So, I was at a university the other day, talking with some people about a sprint project, and there was a student there. He was somewhat eager to write “algorithms”. I’m not sure what that means exactly, but I was reminded of him because I was just about to …
I like this phrasing of the debate about App Engine’s role, from Doug Cutting: Cloud: commodity or proprietary? (via). (Well, I like it more than the sharecropping phrasing referenced in my last post.) I guess I’m excited about this because like Doug I do want a “cloud” of …
This is about Google App Engine which probably everyone has read about already.
I’m quite excited about it. Hosting has been the bane of the Python web world for a long time. This provides a very compelling hosting situation for Python applications.
I’m not as interested in this …