Coder’s Eye

Short story: upgrading SQLITE3 makes Safari crash in OSX.
Using Sqlite on several systems recently, I decided to upgrade the installed Sqlite on my Macbook Pro. Otherwise I kept running into version incompatibility problems between the Linux systems and my Mac.
Compiling was easy enough, but by habit before I installed the new libraries, I made […]

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Just a few days ago, I was talking about how much I enjoy PySqlite, and now I’ve found another great tool for my SQL war chest. SQLAlchemy
I am already using it for another part of a big multi-database reporting project. The fun part for me is that it is more modular and less demanding […]

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At work, I’m doing a bunch of data acquisition on various machines outside the firewall. I think I’ve hit on an absolutely great combination of Python technologies to do this in a really manageable and scalable manner.
The design constraints:

No long-running processes. These are heavily loaded boxes. The data acquisition will run via […]

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I’m pleased to report that the Django magic removal branch is now much easier to use. It feels stable, the docs are getting complete, and I see now that the branch has now been merged to the head.My magic-removed code works great, and is passing all its tests with flying colors. Total time taken for three apps was approximately 4 hours.

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Thanks, Jonathan Snook for creating such a useful (and gorgeous) set of printable reference sheets for the excellent Prototype library for Javascript.
I use Prototype to support almost all my Javascripting on the net, both at work and on personal projects. It is a great library, and this reference just makes it clear how clean […]

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Installing Cheetah on Dreamhost’s shared servers is actually a snap.

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fvlogger.js is a fine logging system for Javascript, but when you are already using Prototype.js, it unnecessarily duplicates a lot of functionality. I’ve forked the original code to “fvlogger 1.0.proto”, removing this duplication.

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Django is one good web framework.

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I just rolled my first real AJAX application out to a to testing.

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