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I've disabled comments because I have some neat captcha-less ideas for how to tell bots to fuck the hell off from my comments section but I don't feel like implementing them for django. The new system (mostly homegrown glue w/ selector, beaker, mako & werkzeug thrown in) has been in heavy development the past few weeks and commenting should be available by the summer. Sorry Mike; now you've no reason to come here.

read the rest of "Good of Society?"

I've been doing a lot with CouchDB and WSGI the past few months, with positive and negative results. I'm finally getting the "hang" of Document Orited Databases (DODB? Rubbish acronym), and starting to understand what is possible and what isn't, how to do one-to-many and many-to-many relationships without having lots of queries. It struck me that although the per-query time in CouchDB is thusfar a lot slower than relational databases, the overall database time for individual webpage loads is far less, and there are far less queries and complex information joins going on.

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Happy Anniversary to me!

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I've been thinking about WSGI and CouchDB recently, while on the subject of digital inflexibility. First, I want to clarify a few things about what I mean by flexibility with respect to an application, and how the current crop of frameworks approach this problem. If you want to follow this musing well, I highly suggest reading "What PHP Deployment Gets Right" by Ian Bicking; or just his entire blog, and most of the crosstalk on the web about REST, Web Services, and the evolution of the WWW.

read the rest of "On WSGI, CouchDB"

I have been programming in Python for quite some time now, and I've been doing it professionally for over 2 years. Despite this, I am not nearly as proficient at the language as I could be, probably because I am using it professionally and have to devote time I could be using learning the language to solving problems.

read the rest of "Pythonicism"

Just "finished" hacking together some code that started out as a small desire and has ended up an obsession of sorts. Initially, it was just going to be a smart, specialized file renamer. It has ballooned into a poorly written (but fairly solid) beast of a program with crc checking and unrar/zipfile support. When I say it's poorly written, I mean it's not beautiful like my xdccq module is, for instance. It isn't elegant in the least, does things in a way that is acknowledged as poor design decisions, and the main dispatch is a giant ugly conditional mess. But it works pretty well!

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I mentioned before that I had splintered off my blog developing efforts into a project I named saudade. The first somewhat releasable ball of code is now finished and in operation at jmoiron.net. This is a (thusfar modest) blog engine utilizing Django and focusing on levereging existing technologies, best practices, and a slim codebase. Some features saudade has over my previous software:

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read the rest of "Some EXIF.py changes"

read the rest of "The mario challenge!"

read the rest of "Coding's shifting complexity"

read the rest of "mod_python & mod_php"

read the rest of "No time"

read the rest of "Elf only inn"

read the rest of "Polish and context menus"

read the rest of "PacMan/SWareT configuration screens"

read the rest of "PyQt corrections and notes"

read the rest of "Python + QT, and why C++ is annoying in the GNU environment"

read the rest of "Why I do various things"

read the rest of "Its the most wonderful time"

read the rest of "It is my contention"

read the rest of "Somebody's Heine is crowding my icebox"

read the rest of "Blue Funk Wedding"

read the rest of "Jtex 0.3 on its way"

read the rest of "XML DTD for JTex"

read the rest of "White Striped XML"

read the rest of "Goals for JTEX (jonas text editor experiment)"

read the rest of "Pango"

read the rest of "pygtk + glade woes addressed?"

read the rest of "Bug Fixes, Features, and Nonsense"

read the rest of "Look out!"

read the rest of "Change my Pitch Up"