Amazon has just released their latest addition to the cloud offerings: EBS or “Elastic Block Store”. The pricing looks very reasonable at 10 cents per Gigabyte, and 10 cents for every millionth I/O operation. It also comes with some juicy features like the ability to create a snapshot to S3 at any point in time, [...]
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The Django foundation has pushed out the second alpha release of Django 1.0 , see the blog post here
Earlier in the week I received “Practical Django Projects” in the mail — chomping at the bit for enough time to get into it.
Exciting times.
I wonder if there isn’t some room in the Django ORM back-end [...]
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Has anyone else noticed that LinkedIn is redirecting to some video commenting startup? I did an nslookup on linkedin.com which resolves to 70.42.142.23 — I ran host 70.42.142.23 which resolved to redirect.linkedin.com
The page “Intense Debate” seems to be about some sort of video blogging system. See screenshot:
What is going on?
Update: redirect is no longer happening [...]
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Languages that do not have native boolean data-types that let you branch on non-boolean data types evaluate all non zero values as “truthy”, (-1) evaluates to true. You might be wondering, as I did, why that is? The short version: it is a compiler optimization.
At first I thought it was a perl specific choice, [...]
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