Pinboard: bookmarks for sogrady tagged 'python'

a nutty schedule has prevented me from talking direct w/ Tim about this, sadly, but it looks interesting. need to write it up after getting the walkthrough.

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march 2009 by sogrady

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Up to Something » List of Open Source Google App Engine Hosted Projects

just what it says

python google gae appengine opensource via:stephen
november 2008 by sogrady

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Learn a dynamic language now - The Tripping Point - Pluralsight Blogs

"Learn a dynamic language now. Why? Because you can do more with less code and get better quality too. How can you argue with that?"

ruby python dynamic languages via:tim
october 2008 by sogrady

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Creating mashups on the Google App Engine using Eclipse, Part 1: Creating the application

interesting for several reasons

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august 2008 by sogrady

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hackety org » Sneaking Ruby Through Google App Engine (and Other Strictly Python Places)

just...wow

ruby python google appengine bytecode compiler via:rafe
may 2008 by sogrady

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Exclusive: Google App Engine ported to Amazon's EC2 - Waxy.org

"AppDrop is a container for applications developed with the Google App Engine SDK, running entirely on Amazon's EC2 infrastructure...anyone can use a modified SDK to deploy their App Engine apps directly to Amazon EC2 instead of Google, and they work with

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april 2008 by sogrady

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Dynamic Language Jobs Map for 2008-Feb-10

note the Javascript predominance

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april 2008 by sogrady

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Using Appengine with Django, why it is pretty much unusable — The 42 Topics Blog

"The other flaws I can live with, but a dbshell not working and pdb breakpoints raising exceptions make this unusable for me. I guess I will stick with Django on a normal web host, and look at EC2, when we really need to scale."

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april 2008 by sogrady

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Google AppEngine - A Second Look | High Scalability

"What's more the problem is developers will be acquiring a sort of learned helplessness. It's not that developers can't port to another environment, they simply won't know how to anymore because they will have never had to do it themselves."

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april 2008 by sogrady

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The Sun is going to shine on Python at Ted Leung on the Air

congrats to Ted. very interested to see what he and the rest of Tim's dynamic language rangers can drive within Sun

tedleung sun python hiring dynamic languages jython
march 2008 by sogrady

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Peep - an Open Twitter Server - RussellBeattie.com

interesting little project. as senor aqualung mentions, it might be useful for some of the use cases we're noodling around internally.

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march 2008 by sogrady

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OSAF 2.0 and Me at Ted Leung on the Air

Ted's looking. if you're smart, you'll look back.

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january 2008 by sogrady

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Simplifying Web Framework Deployment on Shared Hosting

an important question, given the role of shared hosts as a gateway to ubiquity, although b/twn virtualization and HaaS, it may become less so over time

deployment hosting web frameworks ruby rails python
january 2008 by sogrady

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%w(Akita On Rails) * 2.0 - Chatting with Adrian Holovaty

interesting interview with Adrian

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january 2008 by sogrady

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ongoing · R and P

"It occurs to me that there might be a pattern here: Python for utilities and infrastructure, Ruby for applications. Early days yet, but it’s not completely implausible." - not entirely sold on this, as Python's behind some great apps, but interesting

python ruby timbray infrastructure applications programminglanguages
december 2007 by sogrady

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Ars at FOSSCamp: revolutionizing the command line with Hotwire

this is very interesting

foss python linux shell powershell
october 2007 by sogrady

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HowTo - gcalcli - Google Code

CLI for Google Calendar - excellent

google calendar cli python via:shankland
october 2007 by sogrady

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Index of /code/basura

one man's trash is another man's treasure

basura database samruby couchdb python json
september 2007 by sogrady

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John Lam on Software: Steve Yegge ported Rails to JavaScript

"When that fell on deaf ears (Google really does not want to increase the number of languages that must be supported by their infrastructure), Steve decided to do what any other frustrated programmer would do: he ported Rails to JavaScript." who wouldn't?

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june 2007 by sogrady

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Dynamic Language Runtime - Miguel de Icaza

Miguel's thoughts on the DLR release @ MIX

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may 2007 by sogrady

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New at work: Presidential candidate tracker | Holovaty.com

Adrian and co's new project over at the Post; will have to give it a look

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may 2007 by sogrady

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Python, Django and DB2: we need your input!

DB2 folks looking to support Python and DJango - very smart

db2 python django support via:Sam
march 2007 by sogrady

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Python Slithers into Systems

interesting traction for Python within a risk-averse enterprise sector

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march 2007 by sogrady

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ongoing · AMP R Us

"The job isn’t finished yet, until all of Apache and MySQL and PostgreSQL and PHP and Python and and Ruby and Rails are in the package, all optimized for Solaris, all stuffed with DTrace probes" - exactly right

ruby railsapache mysql php python dtrace django solaris opensolari samp
february 2007 by sogrady

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Alrond | The performance test of 6 leading frameworks

more interesting performance metrics with respect to web frameworks; wonder why the Zend framework wasn't included

django rubyonrails metrics benchmarks turbogears python ruby php perl symfony
january 2007 by sogrady

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Google Mondrian: web-based code review and storage

so this is what Guido's been up to: interesting

python mondrian scm peer review code google VanRossum
december 2006 by sogrady

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RailsVsDjango

"Integrated framework for schema evolution." - may be the most interesting differentiator for me; i didn't get it to work last time i was using Rails, but the versioning on DB schema changes is interesting - DJango's very impressive, however

rails rake ruby django python frameworks web2.0 languages
november 2006 by sogrady

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YouTube - In kleiner Runde

interview w/ Tim Bray

Bray web technologies interview via:Snell python ruby jruby groovy dynamic languages
november 2006 by sogrady

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tomboy mindmap

need to try this out

via:Hanna Tomboy Mindmap svg python wiki
november 2006 by sogrady

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Labyrinth Mind Mapping Tool

joe's right, Labyrinth is pretty cool; it's definitely pre-alpha, but cool nonetheless

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october 2006 by sogrady

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Virtual Machine Manager: Screenshots

i will undoubtedly be giving this a whirl as soon as i rustle myself up a machine with Xen on it

xen linux management virtualization via:Donnie redhat gtk glade python
october 2006 by sogrady

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send, receive, reply: Performance is not optional

Duimovich agrees with my general conclusion, but not with some of the particulars; i agree with just about everything in here, but not the assertion that performance is not optional (more on that later)

ruby smalltalk performance java c C++ python
september 2006 by sogrady

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Stevey's Blog Rants: Blogger's Block #4: Ruby and Java and Stuff

"If only it performed better. *Sigh*. Well, its performance is in the same class as Perl/Python/JavaScript/Lua/Bash/etc., so there are still plenty of tasks Ruby's admirably suited for" - precisely

ruby javascript python java performance via:Tim
september 2006 by sogrady

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christopher baus dot net

very intresting post from Christopher on dynamic language performance versus C++; can't say that i'm terribly surprised - different tools for different jobs

dynamic languages python ruby C++ performance baus
september 2006 by sogrady

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Jon Udell: Why argue about dynamic versus static languages when you can use both?

precisely: Ning is exhibit A of this

dynamic static language programming java python ruby C# php ning udell
september 2006 by sogrady

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ongoing · Spolsky Starts a Language War

wherein Bray neatly sums up the DHH v Spolsky language war

ruby python Bray heinemeier-hansson spolsky application development programming languages
september 2006 by sogrady

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Bill de hÓra: Django 0.95

Bill's thoughts on the latest Django release

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august 2006 by sogrady

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ongoing · On Ruby

Tim's thoughts on Ruby; while i'm not in his league in terms of experience, my reactions to the language have been similar - it's tremendously productive

ruby java programming Bray python dynamic
july 2006 by sogrady

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Framework Performance in Ruby on Rails

very interesting benchmarks of frameworks for PHP, Python and Ruby; the net is that Rails (Ruby) outperformed Symfony (PHP), and DJango (Python) outperformed Rails - thx to kryton for the tip

via:kryton rails ruby symfony php django python frameworks mvc performance benchmarks benchmark
july 2006 by sogrady

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Fastest languages for memcached

interesting benchmarks for the P languages on Apache

perl python php apache via:feh benchmarks scalability
june 2006 by sogrady

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Hire Me | 2006-06-20 | BitWorking

clever hire for IBM

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june 2006 by sogrady

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The Tao of Mac - OtherWikis

great breakdown of wiki platforms; i'm in the market for one for a personal site that's run out of databases, so it needs to be flat file based

wikis list python php reference ruby directory lists wiki
may 2006 by sogrady

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Wanted: Web developer for project | Holovaty.com

Adrian's looking for someone to help; if you meet his req'ts, i'd highly recommend dropping him a line

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may 2006 by sogrady

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Anne 2.0 » JavaScript and Python and Java too

great post from Anne on JavaScript and other languages

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may 2006 by sogrady

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The Blog Ride - Can the CLR "go dynamic"? Absolutely... and arguably, already is

"Ruby is the VB of the next decade. Or, if not Ruby, then something like it." - interesting piece from a very sharp and pragmatic developer

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may 2006 by sogrady

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christopher baus dot net

amen, Christopher - 1.) scripting on top of the CLR, in the form of Iron Python, deserves more support, and 2) Mono is more opportunity than risk for them

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april 2006 by sogrady

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Library or Framework?

wherein Guido debates the difference b/twn library & framework

application development programmer VanRossum python library framework
march 2006 by sogrady

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Burningbird » Babble

terrific post from Shelley on language proliferation; check out her second comment on unicode from Spolsky's forums ;)

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march 2006 by sogrady

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Gosling Didn’t Get The Memo [@lesscode.org]

excellent rebuttal to Gosling's latest comments; good to see you posting again, Ryan, and thx as always for the mention

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march 2006 by sogrady

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Peter Williams’ Weblog » Dynamic Languages and the JVM

Peter's thoughts on dynamic languages and the JVM; in particular, check out the comments on Erlang - i'm hearing that mentioned more and more

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february 2006 by sogrady

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Django vs. Cheetah: 1-0

Guido favors Django

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february 2006 by sogrady

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Bill de hÓra: Web frameworks reloaded. Just use...

some thoughts on web frameworks from the excellent de hÓra

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february 2006 by sogrady

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Anne 2.0: What's Not Boring

Anne agrees that Java is boring

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february 2006 by sogrady

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dmh2000-C/Java/Python/Ruby

really interesting comparison of the languages - with code samples

java programming python ruby C++ languages code samples
january 2006 by sogrady

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Python Status Update

how did i not know that Google hired van Rossum?

vanRossum python google programming developer hiring
january 2006 by sogrady

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Roumen's Weblog

i agree with Dave - this is pretty cool - not Jython, Python running NetBeans

python jython NetBeans sun eclipse scripting
january 2006 by sogrady

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Bruce Eckel: Ruby is bad Python, but good Perl (Loud Thinking)

Hansson responds to Eckel's thoughts on Ruby

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december 2005 by sogrady

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The departure of the hyper-enthusiasts

Eckel comments on Ruby, Java and more (via Sequeira)

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december 2005 by sogrady

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ChipLog » Blog Archive » Tagging and the GNOME Desktop

GNOME gets tagging? we'll see, but looks cool for now

gnome nautilus python search software tags linux desktop filesystems
december 2005 by sogrady

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Blogging Roller: Don't worry about Ruby

"dynamic languages are not making fast progress in developer mindshare " - hunh? i agree with Dave - if it's marketshare, that's a valid statement, but otherwise it seems to be a very poor read

ruby rubyonrails java C++ C# ide python mindshare marketshare
december 2005 by sogrady

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davyd: Django Tango

davyd gets a brand new Django based data tape tracking app up and running in a week, with most of that time on non-Django problems - forewent the admin console, interestingly

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december 2005 by sogrady

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karltk's neck of the woods: sf.net Programming Language Statistics

just what it says - numbers are from SourceForge (via Donnie)