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 …
I just saw this json-rpc recipe go by as a popular link on del.icio.us. It’s yet-another-*Server based recipe (BaseHTTPServer, XMLRPCServer, etc). I don’t know why people keep writing these. WSGI is in all ways easier, clearer, and more useful.
So I figured I’d give …
I was offhandedly reading this post, which talked about Earth Hour, and about hating on SUVs:
Also thinking of a nice, simple mass-action for discouraging the SUV-ites. Simple, direct; when you see someone driving an SUV, slowly shake your head in disappointment and disgust at the stupidity of the …
In preparation for my PyCon talk on HTML I thought I’d do a performance comparison of several parsers and document models.
The situation is a little complex because there’s different steps in handling HTML:
Some libraries …
So I gave a presentation at PyCon about HTML, which I ended up turning into an XML-sucks HTML-rocks talk. Well that’s a trivialization, but I have the privilege of trivializing my arguments all I want.
Somewhat to my surprise this got me a heckler (of sorts). I …
Bill de hÓra and then Patrick Logan picked up on an old post of mine about monkeypatching.
Patrick’s reply:
I know next to nothing about the specific problems the Ruby and Python folks are encountering with “monkeypatching”. However this capability is nothing new for dynamic languages. And it is …
I gave my talk at PyCon this year on HTML processing in Python. It seemed to be well received, but I did see some comments on the web from people who wanted more technical content. The presentation I ended up giving was really more about HTML and its place and …
Defenders of static typing have long claimed that it helps them avoid bugs, the compiler providing a constant test of code consistency. Agile practitioners counter that tests do the same thing and much more.
I find myself inclined to something more in the middle. I don’t care for static …
A while back I was reading this post about creating a simple CMS in Grok. Similar to the author over there I often get questions from friends and family who want to build a simple website about what I’d recommend. I still haven’t figured it out. Most of …
Let’s imagine we live in a late binding world, a programming world of messages, what should that look like? What does it look like in the large?
The Smalltalk notion of this is many, many independent referencable objects. Objects all the way down. So you might get something like …