tmux

tmux

"tmux is a terminal multiplexer: it enables a number of terminals (or windows), each running a separate program, to be created, accessed, and controlled from a single screen. tmux may be detached from a screen and continue running in the background, then later reattached."

Intro to Python 101 For Beginners

Musings of an Anonymous Geek: Intro to Python 101 For Beginners

django-firebird

Via Firebird News: Blog post, Django meets Firebird, talks about the django-firebird project.

simplejson

Project Hosting on Google Code: simplejson

"simplejson is compatible with Python 2.4 and later with no external dependencies. It covers the full JSON specification for both encoding and decoding, with unicode support."

gdatacopier

gdatacopier on Google Code

"GDataCopier provides two command line utilities (the syntax of which largely resembles scp) that allow users to

* list documents on the Google document system
* export and import documents on the Google document system

Our target audience are system administrators (on Unix like platforms) who are looking to automate off site backups of their Google documents."

CohPy Link Dump

Attended the first meeting of the Central Ohio Python Users Group yesterday evening.

Here's a link dump from my meeting notes:

cohpy.org (Site was not up yet but here's the link anyhoo.)

Meeting was at TechColumbus.

Group was organized by Eric Floehr.

Eric's web sites: ForecastAdvisor, ForecastWatch.

Group page at meetup.com.

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jonEbird - Jon Miller presented...

Welcome to Apache Hadoop!

Google: MapReduce

Doug Cutting - Wikipedia

Doug Cutting's Blog - Free Search

HDFS Architecture

Apache - HBase

Apache - Hive

Apache - Pig

Apache - ZooKeeper

Python - Built-in Functions - Map, Reduce.

Sort Benchmark Home Page

Jim Gray, Microsoft Research Home Page

YouTube - Cluster Computing and MapReduce Lecture 1

Yahoo! - Hadoop Tutorial

Slicehost - VPS Hosting

Plone CMS

Plone Consulting — Six Feet Up, Inc.

PyOhio

26.1. pydoc — Documentation generator and online help system — Python v2.6.2 documentation

py2exe

Pyinstaller

blip.tv - PyOhio videos.

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Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)

Scalable Vector Graphics - Wikipedia

Selenium with Python

Trying the Selenium web application testing system with Python.

Started by installing Selenium IDE in Firefox. That lets you record and playback interaction with the web site under test. It also formats the test script in a number of languages you can use to automate the tests using Selenium RC. I'm using Python.

The Selenium RC Server is written in Java so the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) must be installed on the system hosting the tests.

Selenium RC documentation

Selenium Python Client Driver Configuration

Python unit testing framework

Python HTMLTestRunner

Python — Unit testing framework

26.3. unittest — Unit testing framework — Python v2.6.2 documentation:

"The Python unit testing framework, sometimes referred to as “PyUnit,” is a Python language version of JUnit, by Kent Beck and Erich Gamma. JUnit is, in turn, a Java version of Kent’s Smalltalk testing framework. Each is the de facto standard unit testing framework for its respective language."

ADOdb Database Abstraction Library for PHP

ADOdb Database Abstraction Library for PHP (and Python) for MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Firebird, Interbase, LDAP, Access, VFP, DB2 and many other databases:

"ADOdb is a database abstraction library for PHP. There is also a Python version"

Sphinx

Overview — Sphinx v0.6 documentation:

"Sphinx is a tool that makes it easy to create intelligent and beautiful documentation, written by Georg Brandl and licensed under the BSD license. It was originally created to translate the new Python documentation, and it has excellent support for the documentation of Python projects, but other documents can be written with it too."

pyPdf

pyPdf:

"A Pure-Python library built as a PDF toolkit."

COLUG Meeting - March 2008

I attended the The Central Ohio Linux User Group meeting yesterday. Rick German from Stoneware gave a presentation on their WebOS. In my over-simplified view, WebOS is a system that creates a virtual desktop within a web browser. The system is built around a set of Java applications running on servers that interface with a number of hosted applications including web services and Windows Terminal Server sessions. This provides a unified point of entry to multiple back-end services with single sign-on, and provides centralized control of who can run which applications and where. This looks like some pretty cool technology especially useful for organizations with a lot of users needing access to a limited core set of applications to do their jobs. Still there is something about the idea of the desktop within the browser within a host OS that makes me feel like this is only evolutionary. At some point that outer browser and OS should disappear like the legs on a snake.

Speaking of snakes, Python to be precise, Catherine Devlin announced PyOhio, a "daylong regional miniconference being planned for the summer of 2008 in Columbus, OH."

Markdown in Python

Markdown in Python: Overview