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Python 3.0 released

Brajeshwar — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:20:36 +0000

Python 3.0 (a.k.a. “Python 3000″ or “Py3k”) is a new version of the language that is incompatible with the 2.x line of releases. The language is mostly the same, but many details, especially how built-in objects like dictionaries and strings work, have changed considerably, and a lot of deprecated features have finally been removed. Also, the standard library has been reorganized in a few prominent places.

South brings migrations to Django applications

Brajeshwar — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:13:31 +0000

The main objectives of South are to provide a simple, stable and database-independent migration layer to prevent all the hassle schema changes over time bring to your Django applications.

Notes on a Django Migration

Brajeshwar — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:51:28 +0000

Scott Hacker, has posted an interesting, and quite detailed post discussing a developer’s move to Django. It’s both a personal account and a researched account, which makes for a strong post.

Read the article — Notes on a Django Migration.

GitX

Brajeshwar — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:05:47 +0000

GitX is a git GUI specifically for Mac OS X. It currently features a history viewer much like gitk and a commit GUI like git gui. But then in silky smooth OS X style!

Google Hosting YUI

Brajeshwar — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:18:56 +0000

Google has been hosting some of the popular AJAX libraries for awhile, now YUI have been added to that roster. Developers now have the choice between yui.yahooapis.com and ajax.googleapis.com when evaluating hosting options for YUI files.

Via: YUI Blog.

Amazon CloudFront

Brajeshwar — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:39:16 +0000

Amazon have announced their new CDN – CloudFront.

As with all other AWS, there are no minimum usage commitments, no monthly fees and the setup is plain and straight forward. Here are the steps;

Sign up for CloudFront.
Put your most frequently accessed static content into an Amazon S3 bucket and mark it as publicly readable.
Create a new CloudFront Distribution using a single REST-style POST call. Capture the domain name returned by the call.
Generate fresh URLs for your content using the domain name from step 3 and hand them out. By using our CNAME support you can even make the content appear as if it is coming from your own domain. You can associate up to 10 CNAMEs with each distribution.

CloudFront will take care of the rest. Requests originating anywhere in the world will be routed to one of 14 edge locations (8 in the United States, 4 in Europe, and 2 in Asia). If the content isn’t already present at a particular edge location it will be fetched from S3 and cached at the edge.

Django-Taggable

Brajeshwar — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:19:11 +0000

Gustavo Picon, announced his new project django-taggable. As the author describes, django-taggable is “An efficient, denormalized and multidimensional tagging library for Django 1.0+”

Django 1.0.1 released

Brajeshwar — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 07:05:24 +0000

Following Django’s previously-announced schedule, the Django team has released Django 1.0.1. This is a bugfix-only release containing fixes and improvements to the Django 1.0 codebase, and is a recommended upgrade for anyone using or targeting Django 1.0.

How Yahoo! used YUI 3.0 for their Front Page

Manaswinee — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:08:07 +0000

At the beginning of this year, the Yahoo! Front Page team embarked on an ambitious project to completely remake the face of the company. The goal was to make the Front Page into the most important starting point on the web while also showcasing Yahoo!’s commitment to openness. From the engineering team’s perspective, this meant turning the Front Page into a framework upon which Yahoo! and its partners could build new functionality and experiences rapidly.

The New Yahoo! Front Page and YUI 3.0

How the Heck do Django Models Work

Brajeshwar — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 05:58:09 +0000

Anyone who has used Django for just about any length of time has probably used a Django model, and possibly wondered how it works. The key to the whole thing is what’s known as a metaclass, a metaclass is essentially a class that defines how a class is created.

Read the article in full — How the Heck do Django Models Work?

Mutiny interviewed BGhose

Brajeshwar — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 05:11:45 +0000

Baishampayan Ghose is one of the founders of the Ubuntu India. He has been an active user & developer of Free & Open Source Software for as long as he can remember.

BG was interviewed by Mutiny.in — Read the interview — about Ubuntu in India.