This will be a _very_short post.
Guido van Rossum is considering the use of Django (among other python web frameworks) to develop a project in Google. He is having some minor gripes with it:
The templating language is not pythonic: This is IMHO a Good Thing. It enforces separation of code and presentation, and is an ideal [...]
The Apache HTTP server is by far the most used web server in the world. It is an excellent, feature packed and standards compliant web server. Extremely configurable, with an endless amount of modules, superb documentation and, due to its license, is being used commercially by companies like Oracle. There is only a small problem [...]
Google announced today in google blog Google Analytics, based on Urchin, one of the best (if not the best) traffic analyzers out there.
This is big news because urchin used to cost $199/mo, and now it is free for adsense advertisers and everybody else with at most 5 million page views per month. I guess the [...]
When I was a kid I read all the encyclopedias in my house. Twice. When I discovered the wikipedia a couple of years ago I was pretty excited about it. Not only because of it’s free content, the fact that anybody can contribute to it, but also because of it’s use of free software.
As of [...]
Hi, my name is Gustavo, and I am a Civilization junkie.
I have sad news for the computer industry: Firaxis and Sid Meier released Civilization IV yesterday and this time they added multiplayer capabilities 3D graphics and customization with Python scripts. What were they thinking? Sid Meier is some kind of video game drug lord, he [...]