I’ve been playing around with Django quite a bit at home over the past couple of weeks and saw that IBM developerWorks just published the first in a series of articles about Python web frameworks titled “Develop for the Web with Django and Python“. I’ve actually started a pretty lengthy post on the [...]

As reported earlier, SourceForge has finally enabled Subversion support for all projects. Perhaps this is the proverbial kick I’ve needed to post a few very minor open source tools I’ve been working on in CF, Python, and Java somewhere in a workable manner (with documentation– *gasp*).

I tend to be someone who is more pragmatic about using the right tool for the job rather than being language agnostic, so I found this overview on C++ vs Java vs Python vs Ruby (via Jake) to be an interesting comparison. However both Rod and I agree that the typical “Java is slower [...]

I came across the Django project yesterday (which was also released yesterday) which looks to be a very cool framework for developing Python web apps. It’s certainly not the “same” as Ruby On Rails by any means (for instance, to me it looks like you actually design your database in code rather than feeding [...]

I came across an old post from Bruce Eckel about his experiences with Python (my favorite scripting language) and how it’s shaped his opinion of strong typing. Instead of using strong typing, he suggests using loose typing and strong testing.

But without a full set of unit tests (at the very least), you can’t guarantee [...]

As I already do Java, C, and ColdFusion in Eclipse, I figured I may as well start doing the snake in it too. I’ve had PyDev installed for awhile at home but have yet to use it. However I need Python for something at work, so I guess I’ll give it a whirl.

FINALLY! I’ve been looking all around for how people are creating working standalone applications in Windows using Python, and I do believe they are using Py2Exe. This is some pretty impressive stuff I think:

How does it work?
py2exe uses python’s modulefinder to examine your script and find all python and extension modules needed to [...]

Jake pointed me towards a blog post about Python coming to Nokia Phones as I’ve been “riding the snake” for a few months now.

Yesterday’s keynote by Nokia CTO Pertti Korhonen at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference confirmed that we would be seeing Python rolling on Series 60 handsets (specifically the 6600 and family) via Forum [...]

Getting an error which reads something to the extent of “CoInitialize has not been called.” when trying to run a COM object in a thread in Python (using win32com of course)?

I’ve been looking around a bit for some simple examples of threading in Python, and after a bit of digging, I came across these links: