Nate pointed out a link to Ranum’s Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security from 2005. Might be worth checking out.

I saw Marcus Ranum present at the CPLUG Security Conference back in March 2005, and he was definitely one of the most entertaining speakers of the day… if not necessarily the most informative. Either way, he was wildly popular with those in attendance.

Played some more CS:S tonight. This time we tried out some new maps including cs_jungle and de_alivemetal, both of which are highly recommended.

I’m not an addict. I can stop anytime I want. Really…

Matt, Sean, and I played some CS:S 3-on-3 co-op vs. bots tonight…

Wow! I love that game.

Quoth George Sakkis:

I’m happy to announce Pyflix, a small Python package that provides an easy entry point for those wishing to get up and running at the Netflix Prize competition … It combines an efficient storage scheme with a high-level API that allows contestants to focus on the real problem, the recommendation system algorithm.

The Pyflix site appears to be down right now, but it might be back up later.

On Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005 at 8:40 pm I made my first post to this weblog. Tomorrow it will officially be one year that I’ve been posting about Python (and a lot of other stuff), and this is my 500th post. Very cool.

Thanks for reading. :)

KwangErn Liew asks which web framework is the best?

Update: Fixed the link.

Quoth David Pollak in his Web Framework Manifesto:

After touring a whole bunch of web frameworks, I’ve come to the conclusion that no existing framework satisfies the needs of a broad range of web developers. The existing web frameworks suffer from a wide variety of problems, conceptual and implementation-wise, that make way too much work for the web developer, the deployment guys, the folks who do application maintenance, and/or the end users.

Unfortunately he doesn’t have much to say about Python web frameworks because he has been “unable to wrap [his] head around Python.”

Uh oh… the classic signs of being a Python programmer.

Apparently MochiAds is built using everything but the kitchen sink:

For the technically inclined, the UI for MochiAds is built with Pylons, Genshi and SQLAlchemy. The secret sauce is a combination of Python and Erlang code, and we’ve got Nginx as the gatekeeper. I’ve got nothing but good things to say about this whole stack. Erlang’s module reloading, concurrency oriented programming model, and pattern matching has really been a dream.

Heh. Cool.

Titus Brown talks about testing XML-RPC servers with wsgi_intercept.