Django Envy

Seriously, can the django and rails camps quit looking over each others' shoulders?

The Liquid Templates project brings django's template language to rails. At least it will make transistioning from rails to django easier once that inevitably becomes fashionable.

posted: 2008-03-06 03:28:03 2278 comments Read More

Special Ops for Django

I do a lot of hacking on django both at work and in my spare time. One of the things I like most about django is the built in admin. It's cheap, fast and reliable. But it doesn't always have the functionality you might want to add, and extending it isn't always the easiest thing to do.

So much of what I do ends up being done in an ad hoc mode. It's only after performing a task a few times that you can really begin ...

posted: 2008-02-29 00:47:20 298 comments Read More

BDB and Memcached and Sedna. Oh my!

Last week was all about NER, and OpenCalais. This week, if I'm up all night, it's because I'm mucking with the bleeding edge versions of libEvent, memcachedb, Berkeley DB and Sedna ( it feels weird to be dowloading software from a russian site on purpose ). 1024 threads seems to work fine, but I'm going to need almost 10 times that many and then as many processes to act as test clients. I'm not sure my hardware is right for these kinds of tests.

posted: 2008-02-23 05:45:09 110 comments Read More

Google knows me

I've been fighting insomnia since early december. It has come and gone for most of my adult life, but recently I noticed that google was in a position to make such diagnosis.

posted: 2008-02-15 03:32:24 91 comments Read More

OpenCalais beats me to the punch

I've been playing with various entity and information extraction frameworks for the past couple weeks with the goal of creating an web service for extracting the major topics from news articles. SP far, my work, such that it is, has shown promise, but is not as robust or reliable as I would have hoped.

I just noticed that Reuters has apparantly been working along the same lines and have opened their work to the public. On the one hand, I feel beaten. On the other, their service does not ...

posted: 2008-02-11 04:57:23 166 comments Read More

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