Daily Python-URL! (from the Secret Labs)Daily news from the Python universe, presented by your friends at Secret Labs.Graphite - Enterprise Scalable Realtime Graphing- June 28, 2008 Chris Davis: Graphite - Enterprise Scalable Realtime Graphing "Graphite is a highly scalable real-time graphing system. As a user, you write an application that collects numeric time-series data that you are interested in graphing, and send it to Graphite's processing backend, carbon, which stores the data in Graphite's specialized database. The data can then be visualized through graphite's web interfaces. ... ... if you need to graph a lot of different things (like dozens of performance...http://www.pythonware.com/daily/#entry7223359119402947240 Wikidbase 1.0.b1 released.- June 27, 2008 Nick Blundell: Wikidbase 1.0.b1 released. "After nearly 3 years of development, wikidbase has now reached its first beta release. ... The wikidbase concept is based on the view that non-technical users of a database system (i.e. those who are the experts of the nature of the data they handle) should be able to create and evolve their database model over time (i.e. without paying a database expert over and over again to do it). This is particularly relevant to non-profit and charity...http://www.pythonware.com/daily/#entry8071228984622854893 The Python Papers: Call for papers, Volume 3 Issue 2- June 24, 2008 Maurice Ling: The Python Papers: Call for papers, Volume 3 Issue 2 "We would like to call for papers, articles, opinion pieces and feedback to include in Volume 3, Issue 2 of The Python Papers. We would love to receive articles on Python for beginners and discussions about Python performance. Any article will be gratefully received, of course, so do not let the above list of suggestions deter you from considering an article on another topic."http://www.pythonware.com/daily/#entry7992684847556319250 Annotate observed types in a Python program- June 22, 2008 Alex Holkner: Annotate observed types in a Python program "Neat script I wrote for a friend to annotate a Python script with the types observed during a run of the program."http://www.pythonware.com/daily/#entry234903035783475027 Realizing Jython 2.5- June 22, 2008 Jim Baker: Realizing Jython 2.5 "Jython 2.5 is really, finally, unbelievably coming together. This is the next release of Jython, after last summer's 2.2. In a nutshell, we have completed all new language features using an Antlr parser, except for absolute imports. All bytecode generation work, now using an ASM backend, is done. Of course, there are many outstanding bugs. And Python is not just a core language; we need to support fully the fact that "batteries are included". But let's look at...http://www.pythonware.com/daily/#entry1969783126340423653 Save the date- June 16, 2008 Jacob Kaplan-Moss: Save the date "Mark your calendars: Django 1.0 is coming in early September! We're nearing the home stretch on releasing Django 1.0. We've just published a roadmap and schedule that brings us to a 1.0 release on September 2nd, 2008."http://www.pythonware.com/daily/#entry1169833756425779548 Code Swarm- June 16, 2008 Michael Ogawa: Code Swarm "Visualizing the commit history of the Python scripting language project."http://www.pythonware.com/daily/#entry1698556930198885667 PyCon: Plans for PyCon 2009: Dates & Venue- June 16, 2008 David Goodger: PyCon: Plans for PyCon 2009: Dates & Venue "PyCon 2009 will take place at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare hotel, which has much more meeting space than the Crowne Plaza: a larger main ballroom, and additional ballrooms (for a larger expo hall and a dining hall). There's room in the main ballroom for over 1500 people, all in classroom layout."http://www.pythonware.com/daily/#entry1635398410526756221 Introducing Pinax- June 12, 2008 James Tauber: Introducing Pinax "Pinax is a Django project intended to provide a starting point for websites. By integrating numerous reusable Django apps to take care of the things that many sites have in common, it lets you focus on what makes your site different. ... At this stage, there is openid support, email verification, password management, site announcements, user-to-user messaging, friend invitation (both internal and external to the site), a basic twitter clone, interest groups...http://www.pythonware.com/daily/#entry2061218795339340747 Explaining things: math vs programming- June 10, 2008 Andrew Kuchling: Explaining things: math vs programming "Years ago I tried to translate TeX's line-breaking algorithm into Python code. In Knuth's Computers and Typesetting, the algorithm is given in a Pascalish language. Some functions did lots of pointer shuffling that would be have been straightforward to translate into C, but to write Python code I had to actually disentangle the linked-list surgery to figure out whether it was list.append(x) or list.insert(0, x) or whatever."http://www.pythonware.com/daily/#entry860223353976300955 |