What Does A WebOb App Look Like?
I actually had been wondering what a WebOb app would look like after reading one of Ian Bicking’s posts where he handled a form using it. Here’s a more detailed example, and it looks fantastic in its simplicity.
One thing I don’t like about Pylons is all the code it generated and put in my project. There also seems to be a lot of code for a system which is known for its limited yet flexible approach. WebOb removes a lot of that “framework” and gives you a clean, simple project. Right now, Pylons isn’t doing much for me. Frankly, the webhelpers library has been more beneficial. My next project will likely be a WebOb one.
Posted on March 13th, 2010 in links - No Comments »
So goes the Texas Board of Education, so goes the US education system — down the toilet. http://kohm.org/news/?p=22832
Posted on March 12th, 2010 in tweets - No Comments »
RT @boingboing Another earthquake, but not more earthquakes – Boing Boing http://is.gd/ae9EN
Posted on March 11th, 2010 in tweets - No Comments »
Real-world benchmarking of key/value stores
I’ve been involved with some heavy data mining, storage and analysis. We’re currently using MongoDB (not my choice) but I’m considering moving to something faster. Queries on large collections are taking a long time, even with indexing. I’m sure I can optimize it further, but it might still be a problem later. Thankfully, Pete Warden has done some legwork and benchmarked a few other key/value stores, namely memcached, Tokyo Tyrant, Redis with MySQL as well.
Posted on March 11th, 2010 in links - No Comments »
PASW Statistics Data File Driver Guide
PASW is the old name for SPSS. The statistics program outputs a .sav file, what is essentially a file-based database. This guide contains instructions on how to use a driver to access data within the SPSS output file. The driver exposes an ODBC source for data access. It may be possible to use SqlAlchemy to access that source. If so, one can read and write SPSS data files from Python.
Posted on March 11th, 2010 in links - No Comments »
