September 13, 2007 at 11:15 am · tags: Misc
I’m pleased to announce that Packt Publishing has launched a new community driven website to help people with installation issues for the various applications and frameworks we use every day. The site is wiki based so it can be further expanded. Here below follows a copy of the official press release:
September 2007
New Website Launched that Promises to ease the Software Installation Process
InstallationWiki.org is a new website designed to provide users with comprehensive, free guides to installing software. The website will largely be driven and populated by content supplied and edited by experts, and hopes to bridge the gap between software experts and software users.
Quality, relevant and free information on installing software is often difficult to find, especially when new versions and editions are being released on a regular basis. The aim of InstallationWiki.org is to provide people with a one-stop source of information for installing whichever piece of software they’re working with.
The Installation Wiki will provide myriad benefits for a variety of individuals; acting as a resource for software users, whilst supporting the software community through gaining exposure for their respective programs.
InstallationWiki.org has been developed using the open source MediaWiki software package and is supported by UK publisher Packt. The site has initially been populated using installation chapters from Packt books. “We’re more than happy to provide InstallationWiki.org with content from our books” explains Packt spokesman, Damian Carvill. “Packt is pleased to support the idea of providing an online repository of guides for installing software and we’re honored to populate the Wiki with its first content” he adds.
InstallationWiki.org is inviting software experts to share their knowledge by adding to the content on the site, helping it grow into an exhaustive library whilst increasing their position of authority in the subject.
InstallationWiki.org is free to use and open for everyone to contribute to. It is expected to grow and expand over the coming months with more installation guides and features. For more information, please visit www.InstallationWiki.org.
February 20, 2007 at 2:13 pm · tags: Misc Python
I was building a list of media resources (eg. photos, videos) when I found myself writing the following code to sort that very list:
[code lang="python"]
getdatetime = itemgetter(’datetime’)
media.sort(key=getdatetime, reverse=True)
[/code]
It’s not rocket science or anything new but this time I thought the above code lying beneath the expression “code beautiness” (for the record: itemgetter sits in the operator module and media is a list of dictionaries).
So, what’s your example of code beautiness? What python idioms do you find beautiful and maybe “superior” than equivalent in another language?
February 3, 2007 at 1:27 pm · tags: Misc
I was reading through the Artima forums while I found myself on David Heinemeier Hansson’s blog and I noticed I couldn’t figure out the exact date of his posts.
He uses a partial date without the year and a 12-hour format for the time without the period.
So David, please, be kind, use whatever format you want but insert a full one because it’s irritating the impossibility to date a post in time.
Thank you.
January 26, 2007 at 3:35 am · tags: Misc Python
I kinda like the new interface but I just found an annoying flaw in the application preventing me to reach the single NNTP messages.
As an example try go on the it.comp.lang.python newsgroup and search for author:Alex bagel. This query is supposed to retrieve a wonderful post Alex Martelli made about his life in Google but when you click on the link you have some random page without the content you are searching for.
That seems bad to me.
January 20, 2007 at 2:26 pm · tags: DotNET Misc Python Ruby Web
Tim O’Reilly published his analysis about the market of computer books’ sales.
With this kinds of trends you can have a feeling about what leads in the market categories and what doesn’t.
I’m not surprised seeing Ruby (+53%) ahead of Python (+37%) and Perl (-21%), nor to see how books about the web design and development are on the edge. What surprised me most is seeing a +106% regarding SQL Server (!!)… it should be connected to the spread of .NET (that has surpassed Java).
Nice to hear Mac OSX books sale is the only positive trend 
December 29, 2006 at 2:35 pm · tags: Misc
The next XP Conference will be held here in Italy, in Como on June the 18th. Great news! It’s about an hour and a half from my home!
Maybe George will join us 
December 20, 2006 at 1:26 pm · tags: Misc
I just finished reading 37signals Getting Real and I think it’s great.
The basic idea of the book is delivering a great and cool web application and make a success of it. They write concise and well, they know what they’re writing about (and that means a lot) havind delivered a long list of successful applications.
They also drive Ruby on Rails (needing no hype by myself). Enough said.
If you want to learn how to write a succesful web application with a small team “Getting Real” is the book. Maybe not the only one out there, but it’s worth it.
And remember:
Everyone can read a book. Everyone can come up with an idea. Everyone has a cousin that’s a web designer. Everyone can write a blog. Everyone can hire someone to hack together some code.
The difference between you and everyone else will be how well you execute. Success is all about great execution.
– from Start Your Engines
November 17, 2006 at 6:20 pm · tags: Misc Python
This little girl is very funny. She’s 8 and she wants to blow up her elementary school. A very very very funny joke based in Ireland.
Demolition Girl
Could help to me to destroy my school please?
ah ah ah
October 8, 2006 at 9:40 pm · tags: Misc
I always wanted to open a blog in my mother tongue and I found the inspiration after attending the Bzaarcamp last week. So now I’m officially in the italian bloggers bandwagon I guess… I called it Nero Per Caso.
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