Archive 5. May 2010

Ceph: A Linux petabyte-scale distributed file system - too bad we don't need a distributed cluster file system in the company anymore because of the big NetApp - this sounds really interesting and looks like it actually addresses the weaknesses of previous solutions.

Marak's JSLINQ at master - GitHub - a nice small JavaScript library that offers a query language for JSON data. It is oriented towards Microsoft's LINQ, but currently only has simple queries implemented. Nevertheless, it might be quite interesting to make JavaScript code more flexible and readable when working with larger amounts of JSON data.

parsedatetime - a very practical library that converts "normal" date specifications (unfortunately only in English as far as I can see) into Python datetime objects.

PyPy Status Blog: Running wxPython on top of pypy - PyPy is really making huge strides towards being usable. It's already faster than CPython in some cases and now even larger C extensions like wxPython are running. Cool.

Zoolander - a small Python library that allows you to use Python as a DSL for generating CSS. Sounds silly at first, but if you want or need to produce CSS dynamically and then embed it in a web framework, it can be quite practical.