Nov 11, 2002
David Watson has just made the switch from Glue to Apache Axis. I understand his pain, as everything broke on my server when I “upgraded” Glue from 2.x to 3.2. However, I managed to get it working although I was not deploying my application in … Read more
Nov 10, 2002
A few weeks back I recommended Iain Banks’ The Business to Vic only to find out that he wasn’t too keen on it. It had been a while since I had read the book and I suppose that the only thing which stuck in my mind … Read more
Nov 10, 2002
Vic suggested that I comment on my rise in the Google rankings. At present writing, a Google search for “ian stevens” returns my Radio weblog as the highest ranking search result, surpassing even famous Shrewsbury forward Ian Stevens as well as Ian Stevens, the prominent … Read more
Nov 8, 2002
A few months ago, Vic was talking about JUnit and how I should have been making use of it. He even went so far as to sketch out a small test case. I knew I should have been writing test cases for my code, but my work schedule was so hectic, with me … Read more
Nov 7, 2002
I know the whole Googlism thing is passé, but I can’t resist just one post. I’m still not sure if I want to stick with the “crazed monkey” theme, but after performing a Googlism search for “crazed monkey“, I’m leaning towards keeping it:
crazed monkey is wreaking havoc … Read more
Parsing and manipulating dates is one of the most painful parts of software development. Python-dateutil helps. Its relativedata provides units I’ve missed from datetime.timedelta. That alone is reason to use this module.
“Lucandra provides a Lucene IndexReader and IndexWriter that interfaces with Cassandra.” It requires support for distributed ordered keys in Cassandra. Lucandra does not currently support storing of normalisations, so scoring isn’t available.
CLucene is a C++ port of the Java Lucene engine. It’s a little bit behind the Java engine, with its Git working copy tracking Java Lucene 2.3.2.
“Peafowl is a powerful but simple messaging server that enables reliable distributed queuing with an absolutely minimal overhead by using memcache protocol for maximum cross-platform compatibility.” This is a pure Python port of Starling, a Ruby queue server built for Twitter. As such, it supports the Starling queue log.
Redqueue is a lightweight, persistent queue server in pure Python. It leverages memcached and Tornado.