I was writing some Python yesterday, and came across an issue that I thought was going to send me back to the drawing board. I was using a module that, given an Apache access log, returns line objects with the fields of the line as attributes of the line object. It was certainly usable as-is,…
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Taking Virtualization to the Next Level: AppLogic
Every now and then, something comes around that is as useful as it is novel. Of course, the notion of virtualized systems isn’t new. In fact, systems running something like what we now call a “hypervisor” have existed for, literally, decades. But what about that next level of virtualization? What if you could not only…
Diving into Django
Yeah, so… Doug said if I was looking to make friends with Python for anything other than systems work, I should probably have a look at Django. Then I found this install on OS X guide the other day, and went ahead and downloaded Django. About 15 minutes later, I was looking at the “It…
Got a new iPhone
Yeah, I dove into the iPhone after seeing Steve Jobs’s keynote where he talked about all of the new features. When I first saw the iPhone, I had no real interest in it, because I didn’t like the idea that the only apps I could use were those deemed worthy by Apple. I tend to…
Python Magazine February Issue Available
Go grab your copy now! If you’re not a subscriber, get the PDF or Print+PDF subscription now! This month there’s a really cool article about how to take data from a spreadsheet and use it to plot points on Live Maps to provide a useful service to employees in the field. I also chimed in…
Hadoop introductory video
This is a great talk with the head of Yahoo’s grid team that talks about the open source project Hadoop, which is an open source distributed file system and MapReduce implementation. The video is long and interspersed with Yahoo! specifics you might not care about – but keep watching, because they swing back to talking…
Python Magazine on IRC
It occurs to me that lots of people have no idea that Python Magazine has an IRC channel! Since I know a lot of our authors, and even more of our readers, actually use IRC, we’ve created a channel called #pymag on irc.freenode.net (FreeNode in most clients). The goal of the channel is to be…
Sun Acquires MySQL
I’m pretty sure I’m not pleased about this, but I guess only time will tell. Maybe now my boss will let me move to PostgreSQL 😀 See the news release here Blogged with Flock
Python Magazine’s Article Wish List
Welcome to the second occasional PyMag Article Wish List, where the editors of Python Magazine get together to come up with a list of topics that we’d like to see covered, but which currently have no coverage in our magazine. If you’re familiar with any of the topics listed below, or you’re doing something else…
December issue of Python Magazine Out, and DRM-Free
After the October and November issues of Python Magazine were both out for some time, I was pretty surprised when I joined IRC channels only to find lots of people who still didn’t know about Python Magazine. Well, the December issue has just been released in both print and PDF, and I think it’s a…