As both a fan and user of the great technologies Python, and the Sun JVM (primarily via Java), I was very happy to come across this eWeek article which says that Sun announced the hiring of two key Python engineers. You can read more about the hiring of Ted Leung and Frank [...]

A couple of weeks ago Sys-Con published various industry opinions of what we’d see in 2007 in many of it’s magazines. The article showed-up on Slashdot (with a misleading title) among other places and included various industry luminaries. A couple of people you might of heard of contributed to the article including David [...]

I came across a blog entry which shows you how to create an IRC bot from scratch in only a few lines of Python, which honestly kind of amazed me even being somewhat fluent with Python. I’ve seen a number of other Python IRC bot packages but have yet to try them out [...]

I just moved away from running mod_php5 under Apache 2 to running PHP5 under FastCGI for a number of reasons, including that I will be deploying some Python apps on this same server before terribly long and didn’t want the overhead of mod_php5 and mod_python on each request.
This is my first FastCGI install [...]

While I keep poking around Django, I have yet to do much other than from simple stuff with it. That said, it’s definitely starting to gain some ground, particularly in the media space. Locally in Colorado, both the Boulder Daily Camera and the Steamboat Pilot have converted their sites to using Django, [...]

This is kind of interesting to me– DePaul University is now offering Python and Django classes. DePaul is one of the largest private universities in the US, and also has a pretty good Computer Science program. On a related note, Django has started a new branch to integrate SQLAlchemy after some recent [...]

From del.icio.us, it looks like Yahoo! just created a Python Developer Center which looks to be a good resource on Python as well as tutorials on how to interact with various Yahoo! services using Python.
I’m glad to see that Python is also getting a bit more attention lately despite all of the hype behind Ruby [...]