Sunday, 4th March 2007
Five things I hate about Python. By Jacob Kaplan-Moss. I didn’t know you could force eggs to install unzipped with an option in ~/.pydistutils.cfg—that’s always been my least favourite thing about them. # 10:32 pm
PHP 4 phpinfo() XSS Vulnerability. Another reason not to run an open phpinfo() page on your server. # 9:24 pm
pear 0.8. “A libevent/pyevent-based locking session daemon for the web”. Relational databases aren’t particularly well suited to the access characteristics of session data. # 9:19 pm
Scaling Python for High-Load Web Sites. Slides from a talk at PyCon. Be sure to switch to the notes view (Ø in the bottom right)—a really nice overview of scaling up from a CGIs to load balanced, memcached Python application servers. # 9:14 pm
json-taglib. Because JSON just doesn’t have enough angle brackets. # 8:52 pm