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by Glenn Franxman, Django Developer / Stunt Programmer.
Wow! Google just announced Google App Engine which will allow users to host their python applications on their server infrastructure similar to Amazon's EC2 services, but in a more straight-forward manner. The timing is perfect, as I am in the middle of evaluating virtualized hosting for our newspaper websites. The fact that they've started with python and django as the core runtime is huge.
That said, all is not perfect. As Eric and I read more into this, there appear to be some serious limitations. The google model ...
posted: 2008-04-08 13:25:12 54 comments Read More
I suspect people don't trust simulations of traffic as being real enough. And infographics can be a little too cutesy sometimes. I like this video because it is a real world test, but it demonstrates the phenomena so well that is feels like a simulation.
Zombie Feynman would be proud!
posted: 2008-04-06 21:41:28 306 comments Read More
We just launched the new MetroPulse and I'm still in the 'keep an eye on it' mode. The site looks great and will only improve as we round out the features and their staff get more content plugged in.
One of my favorite things about the MetroPulse is their photography. And one of my favorite things about my desktop computer is that it's a mac. And one of my favorite things about macs is the unix underpinnings of OS X. And one of my favorite things about OS ...
posted: 2008-04-05 02:35:56 263 comments Read More
posted: 2008-03-28 13:38:50 32 comments Read More
I'm off to Chicago for PyCon 2008. I've set up a quick mashup of twitter, flickr, timeline and crowdvine at timelines.hackermojo.com. You can see the the con is ramping up.
A few quick lessons learned:
posted: 2008-03-12 11:06:22 336 comments Read More
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