Not only is MIT teaching Python, but it appears that MSU is going to try it out for their intro course. Hooray!
--titus
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Java or C++ Object Oriented Databases?
Dear lazyweb, what's the situation with Java and C++ OODBs? I seem to recall hearing vaguely good things about some Java OODBs from real people (i.e. not marketing flacks) but I haven't kept that information anywhere. (I did find this amusing article on how O/R mapping is the …
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Darned Apache2
Spent a really frustrating hour or two this weekend figuring out why Apache 2.1 wasn't working on vallista.idyll.org.
The symptoms of the problem were that Apache would not serve static pages at all. I could serve dynamic pages (in fact, I "patched" my few static sites by …
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Random reading report
While on travels (visiting the Computational Biology Initiative in San Antonio, Texas) I read two fiction books that were a cut above my normal sci-fi and fantasy reading material.
The Geographer's Library, by Jon Fasman was an entertaining read about alchemists. It took the same sort of pseudo-intellectual approach to …
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Some advice on niche OSS projects
A local friend asked for advice on her OSS project, because her boss is questioning the value of making things OSS. Here's my rambling reply, preserved for posterity:
There are several de facto models of open source at this level (the small niche projects level, that is). The first is …
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My final Web Panel proposal (submitted)
I'll edit http://us.pycon.org/TX2007/WebFrameworksPanel as I update things, but here's the proposal I submitted:
- Frameworks:
- Zope (?)
- CherryPy (Robert Brewer)
- TurboGears (Kevin Dangoor?)
- Django (Adrian Holovarty?)
- Pylons (Ben Bangert?
- Quixote (Neil?)
- Twisted web (?)
- web.py (Aaron Swartz?)
- 2 minute presentation by each representative, introducing:
- point of framework …
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Jabber and twill
After Mark Eichin's comment on my Jabber e-mail notification post, I realized I had to whip up a twill module for sending Jabber messages. Easily done; here's an example twill script:
extend_with twill_xmpp jabber_login titus2@xmpp.us XXXXX send_jabber_message titus@xmpp.us message
Since I know next to nothing about …
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