Yes, language propaganda again. Ain’t it fun ?
Here comes a nice quote from the latest Steve Yegge post (read it entirely if you have the time, it’s both fun and educational – at least for me). So, there: I made the famously, horribly, career-shatteringly bad mistake of trying to ...Java going down, Python way up, and more …
According to O’Reilly Radar, sales of Java books have declined in the last 4 years by almost 50%. C# is selling more books from year to year and will probably level up with Java in 2008. Javascript is on the rise (due to AJAX, for sure) and PHP is ...
memcached vs tugela vs memcachedb
This presentation was planned for an older Wurbe event, but as this never quite happened in the last 4 months I am publishing it now, before it becomes totally obsolete.
Programming is hard – the website
A newcomer in the world of “code snippets” sites in programmingishard.com. Although the site is a few months old, only recently it started to gain some steam. Unlike its competition Krugle and Koders, this is not a code search engine but a snippet repository entirely tag-based, user-built. The author ...
Monitoring memcached with cacti
Memcached is a clusterable cache server from Danga. Or, as they call, it a distributed memory object caching system. Well, whatever. Just note that memcached clients exist for lots of languages (Java, PHP, Python, Ruby, Perl) – mainstream languages in the web world. A lighter version of server was rewritten in ...
Unicode in Python micro-recipe : from MySQL to webpage via Cheetah
Very easy:
- start by adding the default-character-set=utf8 in your MySQL configuration file and restart the database server - apply this recipe from Activestate Python Cookbook (“guaranteed conversion to unicode or byte string”) - inside the Cheetah template, use the ReplaceNone filter: #filter ReplaceNone\${myUnicodeString}
#end filter
in order to prevent escaping ...Monitor everything on your Linux servers – with SNMP and Cacti
UPDATE: Did you knew there’s an official Cacti guide? Find it at Cacti 0.8 Beginner’s Guide
Two free open-source tools are running the show for network and server-activity monitoring .... For more info about SNMP please don’t hesitate to take a look at Essential SNMP, Second Edition
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Sybase woes – and Jython saves the day
Until now, I’ve always had a certain respect for Sybase database.
Based on their history, I thought that the product is a sort of MS SQL
without the glitzy features – think Las Vegas without the lights, the cowboy boots and Eiffel Tower. Which gives: huge crowds of fat tourists ...
Searching for a working Python plugin in Eclipse 3.0M3 ?
Using jython to internationalize a PHP app
At first, this might seem a mind-boggling combination. What do
jython and PHP have in common (excepting the fact that I am a Python fan
and my current consulting task is in a PHP project) ?
Well, internationalizing a PHP app is pretty much a trivial task.
If you are a ...