I’ve never been a big fan of OpenID, it feels like an interesting solution to a problem, but not the solution that makes sense. For starters it requires me to learn something new, which as an “average” user I don’t want to do. Quick education for those not familiar with OpenID. OpenID allows you to have a single …

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Working with django 1.0 and google app engine… Wanted to set every view on my admin page to have admin permission. 1def perm_admin(rootfunc) : 2 import sys 3 module = sys.modules.get(rootfunc.module) 4 for key, value in module.dict.items() : 5 if type(value) is types.FunctionType and key[0] != '' and …

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[originally posted to comp.lang.python — but worth repeating] Ruby has been getting pummeled for the last year or more on the performance subject. They’ve been working hard at improving it. From my arm chair perspective Python is sitting on it’s laurels and not taking this as seriously as it probably should. In general …

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Way to carried away with this… here’s the SpiderMonkey version (as opposed to the rhino) one. Biggest complaint is the File object is a bit of a pain to use… 1fd = File('p.test'); 2fd.open("read",'text'); 3 4mre = /^MULTI_TOKEN\s+(\S+)\s+(.)\t?\s(\d+)\s*$/; 5sre = …

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Using the Rhino compiler… sorry no benchmark numbers, but just as a placeholder. To pick a nit, wanted to do first[m[1]] += parseInt(m[3]) but that yeilded a NaN since first[m[1]] was undefined... You would think that JavaScript would make undefined == 0. 1fd = …

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When it’s intertwined — ok, bad joke. I’m currently “fighting” (playing) around with the python storm ORM system and had the following problem (not the real code, but demonstration). What I wanted to say is: 1find(..., employee_title == 'CEO') However this didn’t work, I had to say: 1find(..., …

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The IEEE summary of this error is worth a read, both from the cause and the outcome of the UI testing. Since I’m frequently dealing with interfaces that require typing of sets of digits or numbers. I’ve been thinking about this for the last few days and have two thoughts on how to reduce errors like this. Not of course …

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Had a 7GB text file that I needed to run some parsing on (to prepare for a DB import). As part of my habit I pulled out perl and whipped up a quick program to parse and generate some loadable files. While watching it run I got to thinking about … why … why perl (yes, I know habbits are hard to break). So while watching …

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Over the years I’ve had the chance to work with my friend Matt twice — once at Excite@Home (via blue mountain arts) a second time at Yahoo on Mail. He has to be one of the more upbeat people I’ve worked with through the years, one thing he’s said so many times that it’s almost comical (ok, maybe it’s just me snickering …

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I admit it, I’ve been working on my middleware python server. Here’s the basic design of the app at this point: PHP <— JSON-RPC —-> Python <–> MySql The assumption is that as things grow, you’ve already defined a good layer to scale at and have a reasonable Object abstraction from the front end. At one …

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