[Chicago] Python (and some other) news on the web
Martin Maney
maney at two14.net
Mon Sep 28 23:21:09 CEST 2009
PyPy has some early results from their JIT - looking good!
http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2009/09/first-results-of-jit.html
His solution seems to be all Ruby, but I'm all over his complaints
about CSS lacking DRYness. Really, really lacking...
http://chriseppstein.github.com/blog/2009/09/20/why-stylesheet-abstraction-matters/
Ever find yourself choosing between open source RDBMs? This may help:
http://www.anchor.com.au/hosting/dedicated/mysql_vs_postgres
...okay, where did the other Python-related item go to? Weren't there
two of those? Well, while I'm rummaging about, amuse yourselves...
Scary: you're never more than 145 miles away from a Big Mac in the
continental US!
http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2009/09/26/413-the-mcfarthest-place-145-mi-to-the-nearest-big-mac/
Ah, here we are. Come join us on IRC and ask feihong about it - he
keeps mentioning argparse. :-)
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0389/
Cooking may have been a necessary step in the evolution of humans. Who
knew?
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112334465
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