Bookmarks for January 26th through February 9th
These are my links for January 26th through February 9th:
- Going for a trot on the Django pony - A newbies opinion of Django - Always nice to see a favourite framework from a new persons perspective
- Google Buzz API - Google Buzz has the internets all abuzz (sorry couldn't resist). But despite the blogs claiming it's just Friendfeed or facebook rebadged, I think the API's all being based on open standards will make a huge difference.
- JetBrains PyCharm Preview - Jetbrains, the company that bought you IntelliJ, my favourite java IDE, have finally released the public beta version of their Python IDE. It claims Django support as well.
- Down with 64 bit pointers, up with 32 bit indices - Alex from Media Molecule has posted a nice post explaining how he has reduced the in-memory size of large tables by not using 64-bit pointers but instead using a large allocated block, and 32bit indices instead. This was presented at Scale Camp and it's nice to see a write up of it.
- Equals Drummond on Fixing the Google Account problem - An excellent overview of Google Accounts, GMail Accounts and why identity systems are really really frickin hard