http://bob.pythonmac.org Bob's Rants Sat, 03 May 2008 20:49:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en .. -*- mode: rst -*- `simplejson`_ is a simple, fast, complete, correct and extensible `JSON`_ (`RFC 4627`_) encoder/decoder for Python 2.3+. It is pure Python code with no dependencies. `simplejson`_ 1.9 is a minor update: * Rewrote test suite with unittest and doctest (no more nosetest dependency) * Better PEP 7 and PEP ... http://bob.pythonmac.org/archives/2008/05/03/simplejson-19/ .. -*- mode: rst -*- I had the privilege last night of going to Google's Campfire One where the Google App Engine was launched, which is basically a service that I've been secretly hoping that Google would release for the past three years. App Engine is going to change everything -- ... http://bob.pythonmac.org/archives/2008/04/08/google-app-engine-changes-everything/ .. -*- mode: rst -*- `simplejson`_ is a simple, fast, complete, correct and extensible `JSON`_ (`RFC 4627`_) encoder/decoder for Python 2.3+. It is pure Python code with no dependencies. `simplejson`_ 1.8.1 is a major update: * Optional C extension for accelerating the decoding of JSON strings * Command line interface for pretty-printing JSON ... http://bob.pythonmac.org/archives/2008/03/24/simplejson-181/ .. -*- mode: rst -*- So it seems that I made the wrong decision for our uplink at Mochi Media. We have a gigabit line to Cogent at 365 Main. They've been mostly good so far (and cheap), but their recent `spat with Telia`_ has cut us off to parts of ... http://bob.pythonmac.org/archives/2008/03/15/cogent-bad-choice/ .. -*- mode: rst -*- The video of the Exploring Erlang talk I gave at C4[1] last August is up on the interwebs! It only took seven months :) Video: http://rentzsch.com/c4/c41VideosAvailable Slides and source: http://bob.pythonmac.org/archives/2007/08/11/exploring-erlang-c41/ http://bob.pythonmac.org/archives/2008/03/08/exploring-erlang-c41-video/ .. -*- mode: rst -*- The float printing options that ship with Erlang all suck. You either don't have sufficient precision, or you have an extremely verbose representation:: 1> io:format("~w ~.18g ~g ~s~n", [0.1234567, 0.1234567, 0.1234567, float_to_list(0.1234567)]). 0.123457 0.123456700000000003 0.123457 1.23456700000000002548e-01 2> ... http://bob.pythonmac.org/archives/2007/12/17/printing-floats-with-erlang/ .. -*- mode: rst -*- A bit over a week ago we moved a slightly modified version of our project skeleton into the open source `mochiweb`_ repository, which gets you a start shell script, a skeleton application following (most of) the OTP paradigms, a Makefile, and a web server that serves ... http://bob.pythonmac.org/archives/2007/12/17/using-the-mochiweb-project-skeleton/ .. -*- mode: rst -*- `mochiweb`_ is finally well on its way to becoming a proper open source project, thanks to Matthew Dempsky. We've got a `mochiweb project`_ on google code and a `mochiweb group`_ on google groups. Similarly interesting is that `iserve`_ is now turning into something more useful. iserve and ... http://bob.pythonmac.org/archives/2007/11/07/mochiweb-another-faster-web-server/ .. -*- mode: rst -*- It's hard to believe that almost a year has gone by since we launched the first private beta of `MochiAds`_, but we just relaunched the site last night and the doors are wide open now! Every user of `MochiBot`_ already has an account via our MochiPass ... http://bob.pythonmac.org/archives/2007/10/15/mochiadscom-public-launch/ .. -*- mode: rst -*- Slides from my Exploring Erlang talk today at `C4[1]`_ are available here: http://undefined.org/c4-1/ Yes, it is definitely `caturday`_. For those of you interested in learning more about `Erlang`_, I highly recommend buying `Joe Armstrong`_'s `Programming Erlang`_ and/or read his 2003 ph.d thesis, which is kinda similar in content ... http://bob.pythonmac.org/archives/2007/08/11/exploring-erlang-c41/