Archive | March, 2007

17 March 2007 ~ 2 Comments

Fightin’ words

Matthew Huntbach talks about what’s wrong with Ruby.
Update: Wow.
I have to admit that I only skimmed the article before posting it. Now that I’ve taken the time to read Nate’s comments below, and the actual article… I almost regret posting it.
I’m not sure if Matthew is actively just trying to troll for hits, or if [...]

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16 March 2007 ~ 0 Comments

Pylons update

In case you missed it… Pylons 0.9.4.1 was released back in January. Never used Pylons? Here’s the blurb:
Pylons combines the very best ideas from the worlds of Ruby, Python and Perl, providing a structured but extremely flexible Python web framework. It’s also one of the first projects to leverage the emerging WSGI standard, which allows [...]

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14 March 2007 ~ 3 Comments

Happy Pi Day!

Today is 3/14… Pi Day! And in honor of this great day, James Tauber wrote a Python script to generate the hex digits of pi. Nice!
If you are so inclined, Wikipedia has a nice article on the various methods of computing pi. Here’s my favorite method:
#!/usr/bin/env python
from math import pi
print pi

Heh.

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14 March 2007 ~ 2 Comments

ONLamp’s PyCon 2007 Wrapup

I’m not going to quote the whole thing, but you should really check out Jeremy Jones’ PyCon 2007 Wrapup over at ONLamp. He gives a list of Python “projects to watch” with a small blurb/paragraph about each one. Django is included, as well as some other interesting projects.

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14 March 2007 ~ 0 Comments

Django tagging

There’s a Django Tagging application over at Google Code that looks interesting:
A generic tagging application for Django projects, which allows association of a number of tags with any Model instance and makes retrieval of tags simple.
Might come in handy.

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