Just a little Python

Since starting my own consulting business , I've had the opportunity to work with lots of interesting technologies. Today I wanted to te...

Continuing on in my series on MongoDB and Python, this article continues to explore the Python MongoDB toolkit Ming , this time looking at ...

Continuing on in my series on MongoDB and Python, this article introduces the Python MongoDB toolkit Ming and what it can do to simplify y...

MongoDB, as some of you may know, has a process-wide write lock. This has caused some degree of ridicule from database purists when they dis...

So with our initial announcement at PyCon and the sprints afterwards, the newly open source SourceForge project hosting platform Allura has...

So in kind of a soft launch, SourceForge released the project I've been working on ( Allura ) under the Apache license last month. The ...

One of the things that's been nice about working with SourceForge for the last few months is the chance I get to work with new open sou...

As I mentioned in my last post , I have been considering writing some version of macros for Python and was looking for use cases. Well, hav...

I've been thinking a bit about macros and what use they might be in Python. Basically, I was contemplating writing an import hook that ...

Today I had a need to create a property on an object "lazily." The Python builtin property does a great job of this, but it call...

One of the things I do in my "spare" time is work on building web applications that will (hopefully) earn some spare money on the ...

One of the painful things about working with any database-oriented project in production is that you can't just drop the database and re...

Mark Ramm and I were talking about how to differentiate GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE in TurboGears 2 and we came up with a syntax that's...

Last night at the PyAtl meeting, there was a question about how you define your cascade rules in SQLAlchemy mappers. I'll confess that ...

Well, last night was the Python Atlanta user group meeting (PyAtl). It had been a while since I've been, and I'd forgotten how fun ...

A little quirk that can get you if you're using SQLAlchemy to create and drop your database is that PostgreSQL doesn't allow you to ...

I saw the linked article and couldn't help but get irritated. I know I shouldn't get this worked up about programming languages, bu...