OAuth Needs To Die In A Fire

As a personal project I’ve recently been looking into creating a small Twitter client in Objective-C/Cocoa. This is largely because I quite like Objective-C as a language and haven’t had the chance to write anything significant in it, but also partly because Twitter have made the news recently with their API nuttiness and I wanted […]

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Git Yer Hooks In

Git, like all good source control systems, allows you to customise the behaviour of the SCM when certain actions occur. For lots of people in lots of projects it’s not vital to use these hooks, but from time-to-time you find yourself repeating the same commands time-and-again. In these scenarios, it is worth looking into setting […]

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pythonpackages.com: pyformance 0.2

pythonpackages.com helps Python programmers package and release their software with just a few clicks. pyformance 0.2 pythonpackages.com recently processed it’s first official release via the new GitHub Service. As such, we are celebrating the release of pyformance 0.2! According to the author Omer Gertel: It’s a straight forward port of Coda Hale’s fantastic metrics package […]

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Codec Confusion in Python

Alright, I admit Alex Gaynor is a pretty clever guy but I was very close to strangling him today for this tweet: @alex_gaynor: WTF does str.encode or unicode.decode even do on Python2? And that’s because on the way to Python 3 these functions were removed because they cause confusion with people, but this broke a […]

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Opalescent Olympics

Author’s Note: I’m taking a break from writing about tech to write about sports. Any readers who aren’t interested should wait until next week, when I sort-of-promise to write about the Python Requests library. Australian Opals enjoying their Bronze Medal victory. Image courtesy of London2012.com. The 2012 Summer Olympics are coming to a close. As […]

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Mail Loop From Hell

Found in #django on freenode, Jul 12, 2012. All names are edited. 11:16 < abrt> since it’s quiet in here I’ll tell you a story. 11:16 < abrt> back in 1992, I had just graduated university and was interning at a government facility in newport news 11:16 < abrt> along with some friends from college. […]

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Pillow Moved to python-imaging Organization

On 7/30/2010 Pillow, the friendly PIL fork, was released. Since then, there have been a number of releases: $ vanity Pillow            Pillow-1.0.tar.gz     2010-07-31      800            Pillow-1.1.tar.gz     2010-08-01      652            Pillow-1.2.tar.gz     2010-08-02    1,987               Pillow-1.3.zip     2010-11-28      589               Pillow-1.4.zip     2010-11-28      587               Pillow-1.5.zip     2010-11-28      876               Pillow-1.6.zip     2010-12-01    6,706             Pillow-1.7.0.zip     2011-05-28      678             Pillow-1.7.1.zip     […]

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pythonpackages.com beta launch

After 9 months of development, pythonpackages.com has grand-ceremoniously flipped the switch from alpha to beta. Here is an overview of the beta release features. Killer GitHub integration The workflow you may now enjoy is: Login with your GitHub account Select a repository that contains a Python package One-click release More sweet workflow: Click a button […]

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Goodbye WordPress, hi rstblog!

Since having switched from the PHP world to the Python world about 2 years ago, I thought about relaunching my Blog using Python instead of PHP. At first, I thought about creating an application with Django and PostgreSQL, but never really had the time and motivation to finally implement it. But today I stumbled over […]

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