Django Developer (and the man behind djangosnippets.com) posts his view of the “must have” list to work towards for Django 1.0
http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers/msg/c2be209a9f10ff30
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The Django team has knocked off one of the milestones for the 1.0 release — Changeset 7477 merges the queryset refactoring effort into django-trunk.
The goal of the queryset-refactor branch was to add a layer of special sauce to the Django ORM and make it easier (possible?) to (among other things) have model inheritance.
Here is a [...]
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As I previously mentioned here: (“Debian packages for solr in testing“)– apache-solr is now in the main Ubuntu / Debian repositories. Once you’ve upgraded to Hardy Heron (good how-to here) you can install solr with the following command:
apt-get install solr-tomcat5.5
Note, I’ve already noticed one bug with the get-properties link in the solr admin and [...]
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Jan Rain, the company behind MyOpenID has released an ajaxy/html widget for sites that takes care of the front end integration called the “ID Selector”
To get an overview of the bigger openid brokers out there check out: provider comparison
Simon Wilson one of the OpenID developers and Evangelists put together a django project called django-openid that [...]
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Here is the link to the main annoncement page, and below you’ll find links to the projects I care about the most
Summer of Code 2008
Django
PHP
Apache Software Foundation
MacPorts
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HA! The google team have answered a lingering question about data portability. I’ve been vocal about my reservations with the GAE platform. The fact that people have ported the GAE python framework didn’t really mitigate my concerns. All code is throw away code anyway, the data is what is where the value is.
These two announcements [...]
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Spock Proxy , developed at Spock.com seems like a mysql-proxy work-alike except that it makes sharding or horizontal partitioning of the database easy and transparent (or at least that is the idea).
The Spock Proxy project page mentions that Spoke is built on Rails, and ActiveRecord, but from the description it seems like this could be [...]
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I’ve started a new project, an apache module, called mod_otter that will hopefully alleviate some problems involving with some popular and widely deployed software.
I’ll be hacking away over the weekend, a mini and initial development sprint.
More details soon, check back soon. I think I’ll make http://yousefourabi.com/mod_otter (or something similar) the official blog of the project
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Werner Vogels, CTO of amazon has just written about Amazon’s latest feature addition: persistent storage for amazon ec2 — This recent announcement come a few weeks after Amazon announced static IP’s (Elastic IP’s) and Availability Zones — or the ability to specify the location of an instance on creation.
Persistent storage for Amazon EC2 will [...]
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The April 11th business week article titled: “Apple’s OS Edge is a threat to Microsoft” is just full of fail. I mean really, they should have done a little peer-review to make sure what they wrote was in the general ball-park of technically accurate According to them OS X pioneered SMP systems…
it all started with [...]
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I’ve just started to start playing around with Google App Engines, and almost immediately I’ve ran into an annoyance.
If you want to host your app engine on it’s own vanity domain (myapp.com) you must have your google apps account registered exactly on that domain, you can host engines w/different domains than your main google apps [...]
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Update: It’s very clear to me that the Google App Engine is modeled after Django… See below
Huge win for Django! It will be interesting to see how this plays out on one hand you have heroku the all in one IDE/Enviroment for Ruby On Rails that is backed by Amazon AWS and auto-deploys for [...]
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Marketcetera, the “open source” Automated Stock Trading has tickled the funny bone of the blog hype machine…
All the other cool kids(Ostatic, VentureBeat, The Open Road) are blogging about “Marketcetera” so I’ll yield and follow along…
The platform which is currently at the 0.4.2 release — 1.0 scheduled for Q3 2008 uses the “FIX” protocol to execute [...]
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Continuing my HTTP bender, I’d like to discuss some fun / necessary things you can do to manipulate HTTP headers using the Apache mod_headers module.
If you were to make a request to Slashdot and examine the Http headers using either HttpLiveHeaders or FireBug you would notice one of two unusual headers: X-Bender, and X-Fry with [...]
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Search.com has just launched a redesign — very cool. Check it out: http://www.search.com
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I try not to re-hash content from other sites, but here’s a link that is too tasty to pass up on
15 handy wordpress plugins (for power users)
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Dear Digg,
I’m a huge fan. I check our site a few times a day. However, there is one thing that has really been bugging me. The maintenance page. Whenever you throw up that oh-so-useful page full of links to the favorite sites of your employees… you return an 200 status code.
Think of me not [...]
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I’ve used VMWare server, VMWare Workstation, and VMWare fusion (Mac OS X desktop client). Recently I’ve been thinking about creating my own VMWare appliance as a development environment for a project.
After some initial research I realized there was nothing special about so called “Appliances” they are just like the VMWare instances I was already used [...]
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