I like this phrasing of the debate about App Engine’s role, from Doug Cutting: Cloud: commodity or proprietary? (via). (Well, I like it more than the sharecropping phrasing referenced in my last post.) I guess I’m excited about this because like Doug I do want a “cloud” of …
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The Mundane Nature Of Programming
So, I was at a university the other day, talking with some people about a sprint project, and there was a student there. He was somewhat eager to write “algorithms”. I’m not sure what that means exactly, but I was reminded of him because I was just about to …
App Engine and Pylons
WebOb Do-It-Yourself Framework
My old do-it-yourself framework tutorial was getting a bit long in the tooth, so I rewrote it to use WebOb. Now: the new do-it-yourself framework.
“Something Must Be Done”
Listening to Tavis Smiley’s show tonight, and the segment My America where they talked about gun violence. At one point they quote a man who lost his brother to gun violence:
You can be in a club and bump into somebody on accident, a little of your liquor, a …
Choosing a License
Governance
The GPL and Principles
For the most part by the time I finished writing my last article on licensing I had mostly convinced myself that the GPL isn’t a practical license for most projects. That is, outcomes when using the GPL aren’t likely to be any better than outcomes using a permissive …
pdb in the browser
People have asked me a few times about evalexception and pdb — they’d like to be able to use something like pdb through the browser, stepping through code.
The technique I used for tracebacks wouldn’t really work for pdb. For a traceback I saved all the information from the …
Which way?
Do you believe the world is (a) getting better, or (b) getting worse?
Please explain. Please, no more “both/neither” answers: choose just one