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Djblets — useful helpers for the Django

art — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:56:41 +0300

Link: "Djblets — useful helpers for the Django".

Djiblets is a useful set of Django helpers. For example you can easily create a custom tags, mangle URLs, show data in sortable rows and add a dynamic site configuration. I certainly will use it!

Interesting series about Twisted Web

art — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:23:46 +0300

Link: "Interesting series about Twisted Web".

In his posts, Jp Calderone shows examples how to serve static and dynamic pages using Twisted framework. Examples are small but very informative.

Using Django inside Tornado

art — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:25:23 +0300

Link: "Using Django inside Tornado".

An example, how to build Tornado based web application which uses Django's ORB and forms.

Nosetests and Setuptools

art — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:15:14 +0300

Link: "Nosetests and Setuptools".

The way to run tests with nose using 'nosetests' setuptools command.

Scipio — full-featured OpenID consumer for Django

art — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:27:21 +0300

Link: "Scipio — full-featured OpenID consumer for Django".

Scipio is a new OpenID consumer for Django. It pretend to become a mainstream Django's OpenID consumer.

Unicode Panel

art — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 20:52:38 +0300

Link: "Unicode Panel".

Easy to use unicode panel, made by Paul Ford.

Compass — meta framework for CSS

art — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:41:10 +0300

Link: "Compass — meta framework for CSS".

This is a meta framework to generate semantic CSS. It is written in Ruby, but can be used in any website as well.

NoSQL: If Only It Was That Easy

art — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:26:03 +0300

Link: "NoSQL: If Only It Was That Easy".

Yet another article, comparing nosql database from scalability point of view. Covered Tokyo, Redis, Project Voldemort, MongoDB, Cassandra, Amazon S3 and MySQL :)

Getting Started with MySQL Proxy

art — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:44:33 +0300

Link: "Getting Started with MySQL Proxy".

Here you'll find few interesting use cases for MySQL Proxy such as logging, query injection, and even custom results generation.

Skype Plans for PostgreSQL to Scale to 1 Billion Users

art — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:21:47 +0300

Link: "Skype Plans for PostgreSQL to Scale to 1 Billion Users".

This article describe how Skype is planning to scale their Postgre SQL installation on 1 billion users. They use PLProxy and PgBouncer to make horizontal partitioning.

IPython helper — ipipe

art — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 01:16:35 +0300

Link: "IPython helper — ipipe".

ipipe extension provides a handy way to browse and manipulate tabular data, e.g. groups of files or environment variables or data dictionaries.

Yet another command line parser for python

art — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 12:47:13 +0300

Link: "Yet another command line parser for python".

Finaloption is a command line parser, intended to make writing command line applications easy and painless. It uses built-in Python types (lists, dictionaries, etc) to define options, which makes configuration clear and concise. Additionally it contains possibility to handle subcommands (i.e. hg commit or svn update).

Python testing tools

art — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:32:04 +0300

Link: "Python testing tools".

A huge collection of tools for unittesting, creating mock objects, doing web or gui testing, coverage measurement and continuous integration.

How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data

art — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:08:59 +0300

Link: "How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data".

Interesting approach to scale MySQL based storage. Authors of the FriendFeed use MySQL as a non releational storage and keep indexes in separate tables.

Implementing XML languages with lxml

art — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:44:25 +0300

Link: "Implementing XML languages with lxml".

Great presentation by Stefan Behnel, about lxml library, which provides a convenient set of tools for XML and HTML parsing and generating.

CouchDB: not drinking the kool-aid

art — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:27:55 +0300

Link: "CouchDB: not drinking the kool-aid".

Interesting flame about CouchDB and other non relational databases.

Git Prompt

art — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:26:51 +0300

Link: "Git Prompt".

Useful script to display git's state in the bash prompt.

The C++ Land's Map

art — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:14:44 +0300

Link: "The C++ Land's Map".

Fine drawn map of the C++. Every programmer must download, print and hang on a wall!!! :)

Dependencies and zc.buildout

art — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:48:52 +0300

Link: "Dependencies and zc.buildout".

This article open my eyes on buildout's dependency resolution! Very, very useful information.

Python in Zoo

art — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:00:31 +0300

Link: "Python in Zoo".

Example, how to use Zookeeper to build a distrinbuted queue on a cluster. Example is written in python.