We all know Guido (and others) really like Django but this post has been conceived to emphasize a different opinion about this framework. The author of the quote is Antonio Cangiano, the man behind IBM DB2 Tools for Rails, so not exactly a fellow Pythonista. Here you are:
The template system allows [...]
As a former .NET developer (ok don’t tell it to mama!) and Italian native speaker I can amuse myself not only with the strangeness of the anglo-saxon community but with the Italian community’s also! That doesn’t sound like a privilege, though. Gotta rewrite this paragraph one day.
We have the biggest .NET user group in the [...]
The first day of the EuroPython PyPy sprint I happened to start my bird view acquaintance with a guy named Brian Sutherland. He decided to attend the sprint to try make a bond between Zope world and PyPy’s. We also paired together a bit and that was cool.
He now published the results of his efforts [...]
I feel evil tonight (here is 3:30am) and then the fortune brought me to the /benchmark directory in ActiveRecord repository (for who doesn’t know what ActiveRecord is, and I think due to the hype everyone knows, see Wikipedia ORM page.).
A while ago someone slapped us with some bench between Rails, Django and Symphony and guess [...]
I just commited the last lines to make mmap module compile as a shared library (DLL) on our beloved Windows platform.
I first tried porting my implementation of time module to Windows and it was a lot easier than I thought. Ok… easier… let’s go back a moment. I have to be fair to myself and [...]
MochiKit is a great JS library but JavaScript itself kinda sucks at string manipulation (if you’re a Pythonista it sucks a lot).
While I was fixing and improving the features of a web application I ended writing awful code to check if some string was at the beginning of some other string. I, then, decided to [...]
I’ve finished porting the CPython’s bz2 module to ctypes plus PyPy and this was the last module in my SoC proposal
It doesn’t compile yet, for the same reason _ssl doesn’t compile either. PyPy’s rctypes has some limitations in structures and function pointers.
In those days I realized how nice is bzip2 library and how simulating [...]
Michele Ferretti released PyAppleSMS, a tool to use the Sudden Motion Sensor shipped in the latest Apple’s notebooks. You can find it here: http://code.google.com/p/pyapplesms/
Code example:
[code lang="python"]
!/usr/bin/env python
import applesms import time
try: while True: x, y, z = applesms.coords() print x, [...]
