In a move right out of The Art of War, Google have announced Google Chrome Frame, which turns IE into Google Chrome. Obviously great for web developers (django or otherwise) who want an up to date, standardised web platform on major browsers.
It seems Google haven’t really studied the book though, as they’re not making [...]
I just noticed a Request for Comments: Auto-Installation of Apps in Django by Corey Oordt, which ties in with something I’ve been meaning to finish up and publish. Some time ago, I blogged about Pluggable Django and How I hate repetiting myself. Since then, I’ve been re-working this code a little. It hasn’t been high priority, since django is not a tool I’ve needed on current projects, but I did manage to get something up on github a few days back:
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Canonical have now released Launchpad as open source. This is really good news, considering Shuttleworth’s previous stance, which I found quite wrong-headed. Just having Launchpad alone as an Open Source project is great, as it’s a very powerful tool. It’ll be interesting to see if they follow suit with the rest of Ubuntu’s [...]
Wherein I create a python program to evolve beasties that can say hello.
I’ve just been watching this Blender 2.5 tour. It starts off pretty tamely, showing just a few variations on what blender has been able to do for ages. There are some nice things, like better UI, visual tips (color coding for animated values, etc.)
However, the real gems are hidden away towards the end [...]
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Turbogears 2.0 has finally been released!. Read the TG2 release announcement, the changelog, or just dive in with the tutorials.
I’ve been holding off on playing with TG2 too much, since it wasn’t final, but now I’m gonna have a good play. It’ll be interesting to compare this with django, cherrypy 3, etc.
A bug has been filed over on launchpad, regarding the Commercialisation of Ubuntu by Canonical. It seems Shuttleworth has nailed his colors to the mast, and they’re clearly not the pretty colors we’d all hoped for.
The original bug report, by Matt Lee, founder of libre.fm, reads:
With the release of “Ubuntu One” and the news [...]
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The UK Intellectual Property Organisation (being one of those governmental organisations which I’m ashamed to have associated with my country), is conducting a so-called consultation on the future of IP, and the forming of a new so-called Digital Rights Agency. This seems to be a further step based on Digital Britain Report.
What they seem [...]
I’ve been slowly upgrading my understanding of complex math lately, by working (in python) through stuff on Project Euler and betterexplained, etc. I just discovered the derivations package in Debian. It’s a book of applied math proofs, styled after K&R’s The C Programming Language’s logical progression and easy reference (K&R’s TCPL is a [...]
