Dec 15, 2002
In case there was any doubt as to my level of geekiness after reading my most recent tirade, Vic wanted me to mention that my background graphic was drawn in XFIG, a vector-based drawing program for systems running X Windows, and … Read more
Dec 15, 2002
To further separate content and style in my weblog, I have eliminated the use of the <tt> and <i> HTML elements. Any use of the <tt> element has been replaced with one of <code>, <samp> or <var> when referencing computer code, output or variables, respectively. I am a little fuzzy on where text which delineates … Read more
Dec 12, 2002
We were encountering a problem in the server code at my company whereby read() requests on a stream were blocking and never returning. This was causing periodic data retrieval within threads to hang, which would eventually eat up all available threads and lead to stale data. I tried creating a watchdog thread which would periodically … Read more
Dec 11, 2002
As a follow-up to yesterday’s post, here’s Get Your War On’s Kissinger chapter.
“I can’t remember — when Kissinger signs a U.S. government paycheque, does he use a ballpoint pen, or the bloody severed limb of an East Timorese child?”
Oh the hilarity!
Dec 10, 2002
It’s been a couple of weeks since Kissinger was appointed to lead the 9/11 investigation, but I happened across these humourous links just now.
From Roger Ebert’s review of The Trials of Henry Kissinger:
“By appointing [Kissinger] … Read more
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
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 … Read more
“Few photographers have ever considered the photography of wild animals (as distinctly opposed to the genre of Wildlife Photography) as an art form. The emphasis has generally been on capturing the drama of wild animals IN ACTION, on capturing that dramatic single moment as opposed to simply animals in the state of being.
I’ve always … Read more
LOLapps makes use of Paster, Tornado, SQLAlchemy and others to serve 50 million Facebook users a month. Here are their slides from their PyCon2010 talk on the methods they used to boost performance of their gaming servers.
