Tag Archives: Development

You’d think there’d be one wouldn’t you? I’m trying to write/hack a reliable web crawler together in python. I’m really surprised that there isn’t a wonderful threadpool version or 10 for me to try out… but it doesn’t seem that … Continue reading →

I don’t want a python IDE that also does Java, Ruby, C++ and makes the tea. I want a Mac-friendly tool (so I can drag and drop files) that does syntax-colouring, that I can debug with without using “print” statements, … Continue reading →

I have an ambition to create a proper bliki, a blend of a blog and a wiki. There isn’t one out there and it really surprises me. I’d quite like to use MoinMoin (because it’s python-based) but look at this … Continue reading →

..which is a shame, but they do make itools, a collection of what look like really useful python functions.

Had a go with alahup!, the agile web development CMS, the screen grabs of which look great. I found the interface to be difficult to work with, partly because on my MacIntel it was so slow.

Now this IS a long shot. I don’t supposed anyone out there can answer me this… I’m using AppleScript to talk to WordPress with XMLRPC using the metaweblog.newMediaObject call…. I created a AS function like this… on encodeAsBase64(theFilePath) set thePath … Continue reading →

OK, maybe not woes but issues. Can anyone out there (Sam? Jonathan?) give me a small bit of code that displays an author’s image and displays it, either on a node or a comment and tell me where to stick … Continue reading →

Robin sent me this, which looks great… TheYahoo! UI Library is a collection of Javascript and DHTML component to make making interactive web pages easier.

Dont expose your unique id’s to the outside world (php?id=1 etc.) people can scrape through everything very easily. This is why del.icio.us uses MD5 hashes of links instead. Giving everything a unique ID in the database is a scaling problem … Continue reading →

Guido, the guy that wrote Python, says Please Teach me Web Frameworks for Python!, which is interesting, because I don’t think there is a best one. Having played with most of them, they all kinda suck for some reason.