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We are happy to release filecounter_0.1
File counter is a small python script to scan files and get userful information.
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We read and report:
Tonight, to clear up some problems with the packaging of the Django 1.0.1 release from Friday, we've released Django 1.0.2; once again, this is a bugfix-only release, and is a recommended upgrade for anyone targeting or using Django 1.0 or Django 1.0.1.
Weblog entry announcing the release is here: http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2008/nov/18/102/ Release notes are here: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/1.0.2/
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Python 3.0
We are pleased to announce the release of Python 3.0 (final), a new production-ready release, on December 3rd, 2008.
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Is it possible to use Python to write small ASP-like scripts. In this post we will see how to use it, and the common mistakes you can enconter in your road to the snake…
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Tempo fa (Ottobre 2008) ho dovuto valutare la fattibilità di una soluzione “save as pdf” basata sull’automazione di Internet Explorer. Il risultato finale è stato soddisfacente, soprattutto per quanto riguarda il rapporto risultato/effort. Vediamo quindi come creare una funzionalità universale “Save as PDF” in meno di un giorno…
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The revamp of Jython 2.5, the python interpreter written in Java, is a very good news, because give us the chance to think of a new way of coding. Looking at Google trends, JRuby and Jython are emerging as key pieces of a new puzzle.
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As processors become faster and multiprocessor systems become cheaper, the need to take advantage of multithreading in order to achieve full hardware resource utilization only increases the importance of being able to incorporate concurrency in a wide variety of application categories.
In this article we are evaluting a new approach to the concurrency. In the last five years computers are becoming even more parallel. Intel is pushing multi-core achiteture also on commodity personal computers. Neverless the computing power is ofter not well used: one again, hardware is a step head of our day-by-day software development. Remember when the 80286 came into light. The 286 was able to provide a multi-programming architecture but without memory management protection. We had to wait 386 hardware to see software working on preemptive multi-tasking, because software cannot cope with unprotected memory. In one word, it costs too much to develop a operating system without the new features the 80386 bring to us. What about concurrent programming? Can we look similarities in the concurrency field?
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