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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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.
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.
