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Index — Django Design Patterns am 11. Juli 2009 unter django
This is a collection of patterns which we have found occuring commonly with Django. All of these either make collaboration easier, coding simpler or code more maintainable.
PyGo Wave Server is here - play with the Waves NOW! — Wavety.com am 24. Juni 2009 unter google programming wave
the developers from PyGoWave Dev Team couldn’t wait until Google releases their reference server implementation, so they built their own!
Less Wrong: The Two-Party Swindle am 15. Juni 2009 unter politics
Getting emotional over politics as though it were a sports game - identifying with one color and screaming cheers for them, while heaping abuse on the other color's fans - is a very good thing for the Professional Players' Team; not so much for Team Voters.
mindblowing_Python_GIL am 14. Juni 2009 unter gil python video
mind-blowing presentation about how the Python GIL actually works and why it's even worse than most people even imagine.
What Pair-Programing is Not am 13. Juni 2009 unter management pair productivity programming
Pairing does not mean that two people always do everything together and checking each others work, that would be boring and a waste of time. Pairing means that people bonce ideas from each other and have discussions, not in abstract, but behind a keyboard, keep each other focused and on track. Result of which is code which is better than the sum of its parts. Pairing is about sharing the knowledge with your team mates so that everyone is on the same page.
Polyphasic Sleep am 11. Juni 2009 unter hack productivity sleep
My main motivation for trying this is curiosity, and it seems like it would be a fun test of self-discipline. Plus it meshes nicely with my own general weirdness. Whether the experiment succeeds or fails, it should be an interesting learning experience.
HotPads Shows the True Cost of Hosting on Amazon | High Scalability am 9. Juni 2009 unter amazon aws ec2 hosting performance
It gives real costs on on their servers, how many servers they have, what they are used for, and exactly how they use S2, EBS, CloudFront and other AWS services. This is great information for anybody trying to architect a system and wondering where to run it.
Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal am 30. Mai 2009 unter history programming weird
No, your Real Programmer uses OS/370. A good programmer can find and understand the description of the IJK305I error he just got in his JCL manual. A great programmer can write JCL without referring to the manual at all. A truly outstanding programmer can find bugs buried in a 6 megabyte core dump without using a hex calculator. (I have actually seen this done.)
The Invisible Things Lab's blog: Trusting Hardware am 30. Mai 2009 unter hardware security
1. On most systems we are not protected against hardware backdoors, e.g. in the network card controller. 2. New technologies, e.g. Intel VT-d, can allow to protect against potentially malicious hardware (requires specially designed OS, e.g. specially configured Xen)… 3. … except for the potential backdoors in the processor. 4. If we don't trust Microsoft, why should we trust Intel or AMD?