This morning we launched the Guardian Open Platform at a well attended event in our new offices in Kings Place. This is one of the main projects I’ve been helping out with since joining the Guardian last year, and it’s fantastic to finally have it out in the open. There are two components to the...

PyFilter: I need a one-liner (?) in Python to convert 9/2/09 style dates to 9/2/2009, while also understanding 9/2/71 to be 9/2/1971. Help! Inspired by an answer to this question I've started poking around learning Python in my spare time. Yes, that's only been an hour or two every few months, but h...

A few weeks ago I received a free copy of Django 1.0 Template Development by Packt Publishing to review. You can view the chapter about serving multiple output formats on my blog, and below is my review of the rest. Author The author is Scott Newman, who has had several years' experience with Django...

As Monty Python fans will gleefully remind you, nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition, and for nearly 30 years, nobody in the Welsh town of Aberystwyth expected that the troupe’s 1979 film, “Life of Brian,� would be screened in the village. The movie, a satire on the life of Jesus, had been b...

As I’ve blogged before, I use CodeHTMLer to post code snippets on my blog. I hear SyntaxHighlighter is the new hotness, but since it relies on CSS the syntax highlighting only appears on the website and not in the RSS reader. The problem with CodeHTMLer is that it only supports a handful of langua...

ROSEdu [1] aduce programatorilor pasionați un Curs de Dezvoltare Liberă (CDL) [2]. Proiectul se va desfășura pe o perioadă de 6 săptămâni, în weekend, în Facultatea de Automatică și Calculatoare (EG106). Cursurile și laboratorele CDL vor învăța studenții cum să dezvolte un software...

Earlier this month Chris McDonough posted profile summaries of four Python web frameworks: repoze.bfg, Django, Pylons, and Grok. The framework I use, QP, supports WSGI but doesn't depend on it, which is neither good nor bad but perhaps as a result I'm a little less aware of the WSGI ecosystem than I...

DB2 support for Django is coming. From IBM, under the Apache 2.0 License. I’m not sure if this makes it hard to bundle it with the rest of Django, which uses the BSD license....

In my last post I showed my own implementation of an HTTPS Man-in-the-middle proxy written from scratch in Python. I’ve spent great deal of time to make the proxy as programmer-friendly as possible. I this post I am planning to show how you can use the code to write your own proxies in the spi...

When I read that the Liferea hackers were considering doing a rewrite, I jumped at the opportunity to throw together a prototype. I had been dabbling with this in python for the last year or so anyway, solving interesting problems with storing lots of data while keeping memory usage light. I also wa...