I had no idea I lived in Chaplin Estates and not Forest Hill. Thanks to this map which squeezes the names of all Toronto neighbourhoods into their respective boundaries, now I know!

I’ve never had to worry too much about the size of my executables. Should that day come, this tutorial should give some insight as to how I can shave precious bytes. The code involved prints a number. The author starts with C, with the resulting executable at just under 4K, to assembler with heavy manipulation … Read more

This is a nice writeup by Armin Ronacher on the pros and cons of three Python web “frameworks”, namely WebOb, Werkzeug and Django, focussing on their request and response objects. The real gems are in the comments, with a discussion centered around WSGI.

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 … Read more

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 … Read more