I was going to ignore this story altogether, but this post from Leonard Lin nails the issue so perfectly that I had to share it with all of you.
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Internet Asshattery, Armchair Scaling Experts Edition
Link bookmarked via Diigo on Saturday, April 26, 2008 @ 10:07 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
Generator Tricks for Systems Programmers
Link bookmarked via Diigo on Thursday, April 24, 2008 @ 15:02 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
This is a great guide on generator functions in Python, including use cases. The slides from his presentation (available as a PDF from the linked page) may be the best tutorial I’ve seen on the subject so far.
Django Pluggables: Browsing through code so you don’t have to.
Link bookmarked via Diigo on Friday, April 18, 2008 @ 09:11 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
This is a neat service that collects reusable and “pluggable” Django applications that you can incorporate into your project. While many reusable apps exist, there previously wasn’t any unified listing, so you spent most of your time searching for Google Code projects that had already been put together.
This is just an awesome resource for developers using Django.
Introducing Stackoverflow.com
Link bookmarked via Diigo on Thursday, April 17, 2008 @ 11:41 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
This is Jeff Atwood’s post announcing the new venture that he is starting up with Joel Spolsky. There’s nothing at the actual site yet besides a podcast of a conference call. He sums up the direction of this new site as:
“Stackoverflow is sort of like the anti-experts-exchange (minus the nausea-inducing sleaze and quasi-legal search engine gaming) meets wikipedia meets programming reddit. It is by programmers, for programmers, with the ultimate intent of collectively increasing the sum total of good programming knowledge in the world. No matter what programming language you use, or what operating system you call home. Better programming is our goal.”
I’ll be excited to see where this goes.
Coding Horror: Your Session Has Timed Out
Link bookmarked via Diigo on Wednesday, April 16, 2008 @ 11:15 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
This is an interesting post by Jeff Atwood on how programmers should handle session expiration in their applications. I particularly like his explanation of why session expiration occurs:
“The HTTP protocol that the web is built on is stateless. That means every individual request your browser sends to a web server is a newborn babe, cruelly born into a world that is utterly and completely oblivious to its existence.” 
Using Django with Appengine
Link bookmarked via Diigo on Saturday, April 12, 2008 @ 23:30 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
This is a useful guide for navigating some of the specifics of getting a Django project up and running on Google App Engine.
Django Rosetta
Link bookmarked via Diigo on Saturday, April 12, 2008 @ 12:09 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
Via Simon Willison:
This is a real cool Django app that creates an awesome interface to help internationalize your site. Allows the adminstrator, and an optional group of designated translators to read and write your site’s gettext files.
Django Evolution
Link bookmarked via Diigo on Saturday, April 12, 2008 @ 10:29 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
This is one of the more promising projects in progress on the Schema Migration front. Schema evolution can be a bit painful and projects like this for automatically migrating database structure based on the Python model code will be a necessity for long term projects.
DZone - fresh links for developers
Link bookmarked via Diigo on Saturday, April 12, 2008 @ 07:26 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
This is a Digg-like site for developers. It’s still fairly small, but I found some really great content that I hadn’t seen before within the first ten minutes of browsing it.
Google Jumps Head First Into Web Services With Google App Engine
Link bookmarked via Diigo on Monday, April 7, 2008 @ 21:53 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
Google provides major infrastructure for web app hosting, in direct competition with Amazon’s Web Services. Google’s service is free unless you go over your limits, which look reasonable at the outset. Your app needs to be written in Python (more languages available later), which will be a limitation for some, but as you may have noticed I am quite fond of that language.
That being said, the platform is pretty proprietary, and at this point I don’t have enough info on how easy/difficult it is to get your stuff back out of it if you need to. This is an exciting offering, but one I’ll probably wait and watch on.
