Jun 03, 2008

Submitted by Felix: So recently I’ve been playing around with the Python, even bought a book to make things slightly less haphazard. First I want to get it out of the way, I like programming in Python - more than Ruby when I dabbled in it (surprisingly, to me, actually) and much more than any time spent with PHP. (Read More)

Jun 03, 2008

Submitted by Felix: The 2008Q2 grant round was by far the largest in recent years in both the quantity and quality of grant requests received by TPF. Characterisitically, TPF authorizes about US$5,000 of grant funding per quarter. In 2008Q2 we received nearly US$45,000 in grant requests. (Read More)

May 30, 2008

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May 30, 2008

FriendFeed thePuck A quick calculator to see who someone has the most in common with on friendfeed using shared "likes" as the metric. (Read More)

May 29, 2008

benjamingolub.com Google App Engine gained support for memcached today, a very high performance caching system, and I’m already using it in FF To Go.I’ll share some code with you so you know how it works.  This is the code that renders the public feed:def public(request): f = friendfeed.FriendFeed() try: start = int( (Read More)

May 21, 2008

Submitted by Felix: So I finally decided to play around with Python and AppEngine a little - had a little FriendFeed project that’s been kicking around my brain for a bit. Bear in mind I’ve done exactly one project in Python and that was over a decade ago, so, you know. This is all pretty much the knee jerk reactions of a Perl guy. (Read More)

May 21, 2008

Submitted by Felix: It’s just a dumb, fun project. Nothing made to be a big splash; just something I’ve been meaning to do. It uses Django + App Engine + Summize to power it. (Read More)

May 21, 2008

Submitted by Felix: I don’t think anyone is suggesting that PHP is a beautiful language, but it is one rooted in practicality and the needs of the bulk of web developers around and its vibrant community and wealth of applications and modules are a testament to that. I think that any languages that aspire to that level of popularity would be we (Read More)

May 21, 2008

Submitted by Felix: I'm no language elitist, but language design is hard. There's a reason that some of the most famous computer scientists in the world are also language designers. And it's a crying shame none of them ever had the opportunity to work on PHP. From what I've seen of it, PHP isn't so much a language as a random collection of arb (Read More)

May 21, 2008

Submitted by Felix: I've spent a bit of time translating a small Ruby program to Perl. If you've not actually programmed in Ruby before, it's an interesting language and not all idioms translate well to Perl. (Read More)

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