Archive 6. September 2010

COBOL ON COGS - I am at a loss for words ...

DOS on Dope: The last MVC web framework you'll ever need - I am scared.

Plac - a very nice option parser for command-line tools. The special feature: the parameters are simply determined from the function definitions and the whole thing works from Python 2.3 onwards (with some limitations in syntax, as there were no decorators in Python 2.3 and annotations only exist from Python 3 onwards). Seems to be a good way to build tools that should run on multiple Python versions (because otherwise only getopt remains and that is really very primitive).

Python Datastructures Backed by Redis @ Irrational Exuberance - Redis itself is already very interesting because it is not just a simple key-value store, but structured data (lists, sets) are allowed as values. And with this library, Redis structures are accessible as normal Python data types, making programming with Redis even simpler. Combined with replication in Redis, this could be very interesting in clustered environments.

Schwarz-Gelb agrees on longer nuclear power plant operating times - the stupid talk and back-patting of the bought and turned proletarians disgusts me the most.

zeromq - no idea if I already had it, but hey, repetitions also exist on TV. Interesting about ZeroMQ: it has almost no real build dependencies and is therefore directly installable on many systems. Oh, it's a message queue server with a lean interface and good performance.