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It's been a wild ride 
(unknown author) via Eric Florenzano's Latest P on Sun, 30 Nov. 2008
This post is my final post in the blog-post-per-day challenge. There have been days when I really didn't want to blog (resulting in posts like this), and there have been days where I was excited about what I was writing about and spent a lot of time on a post (resulting in posts like
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Pushes!
defunkt via The GitHub Blog on Fri, 28 Nov. 2008
You’ll no longer see a flood of commit events in your dashboard. Instead? Push events.
Commit events will still appear on your profile and in all your RSS
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Date with Googlebot, Part II: HTTP status codes and If-Modified-Since
Gerald Hibbert via Google Webmaster Central Blog on Thu, 27 Nov. 2008
Our date with Googlebot was so wonderful, but it's hard to tell if we, the websites, said the right thing. We returned 301 permanent redirect, but should we have responded with 302 temporary redirect (so he knows we're playing hard to get)? If we sent a few new 404s, will he ever call our si
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Sorting 1PB with MapReduce
A Googler via The Official Google Blog on Sat, 22 Nov. 2008
At Google we are fanatical about organizing the world's information. As a result, we spend a lot of time finding better ways to sort information using MapReduce, a key component of our software infrastructure that allows us to run multiple processes simultaneously. MapReduce is a perfect solution for many of the computations we run daily,
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Lively no more
(unknown author) via The Official Google Blog on Thu, 20 Nov. 2008
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Well that didn't last long.
In July we launched Lively in Google Labs because we wanted users to be able to interact with their friends and express themselves online in new ways. Google has always been supportive of this kind of experimentation because we believe it's the best way to create groundbreaking products that make a difference to people's
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CloudFront CDN for jQuery
John Resig via jQuery Blog on Wed, 19 Nov. 2008
Here at jQuery we’ve been using Amazon S3 to host the jQuery code and static site files for quite some time. It’s remained dependable and quite responsive.
Yesterday Amazon released their new service, called CloudFront. The major difference between it and S3 (they are both designed to serve files)
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Django 1.0.2 released
(unknown author) via The Django weblog on Wed, 19 Nov. 2008
Shortly after last week's Django 1.0.1 release, several people noted that the packaging script used to produce the release omitted several directories from the Django source tree; mostly this affected some unit tests, but at least one of the omitted directories affected the use of Django itself (specifically, of django.con
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WSGI middleware is awesome, and Django should use it more
(unknown author) via Eric Florenzano's Blog on Mon, 17 Nov. 2008
Most people in the Django community are deploying their apps these days with
mod_wsgi. If not, then you're at least using WSGI as a communication layer
with your application server, in one way or another. The great thing about
WSGI is that it gives everyone a common interface through which to talk. It
also ha
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Writing an Markov-Chain IRC Bot with Twisted and Python
(unknown author) via Eric Florenzano's Blog on Sun, 16 Nov. 2008
Twisted is one of Python's great secret weapons. It is an absolute workhorse,
allowing for insanely fast network applications to be written with very little
effort. So let's do what everyone does when they want to learn more about
Twisted: let's write an IRC bot! This bot is going to use Markov C
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Django 1.0.1 released!
(unknown author) via The Django weblog on Sat, 15 Nov. 2008
Following the previously-announced schedule, today the Django team
has released Django 1.0.1. This is a bugfix-only release containing fixes and improvements to the Django 1.0 codebase, and is a recommended upgrade for anyone using or targeting Django 1.0.
For full details, check out
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Easy Multi-Database Support for Django
(unknown author) via Eric Florenzano's Blog on Fri, 14 Nov. 2008
Background
One of the most requested features in Django is that it support connecting to
multiple databases at once. This can come in several flavors, but the two
most common cases are sharding, and (vertical) partitioning
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Django’s URL template tag sucks
Jeff Croft via JeffCroft.com: Latest blog ent on Mon, 10 Nov. 2008
I don’t like Django’s {% url %} template tag, and I'm about to tell you why. But first, let's have a little history lesson so we understand why the {% url %} tag exists and what problem it attempts to solve.
I’ve been involved in Django since the .90 release, or nearly three years. As long as I’ve been working with Django, there’s been a convention w
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Eric Florenzano: Using CouchDB with Django
(unknown author) via The Django community aggregato on Mon, 10 Nov. 2008
Ahhh, Django: my favorite web framework. And CouchDB: my favorite new
database technology. How can I pair these two awesomes together to make an
awesome-er?
One of the features that I would like to add to this site when it's time for an
upgrade is a lifestream. It seems like everyone is doin
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Instant FriendFeed - Notifications and Posting over IM
Gary Burd via FriendFeed Blog on Fri, 07 Nov. 2008
The great thing about IM is that it’s instant. You know right away when someone wants to reach you. To give users the option of having that same immediacy when it comes to FriendFeed, we’re now offering FriendFeed over IM:
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Atom, Google Reader and Duplicates on Planets
(unknown author) via James Tauber's Blog on Thu, 06 Nov. 2008
For a while I've wondered why posts syndicated across multiple planets don't get picked up by Google Reader as duplicates (and automatically marked read when I've read it the first time around).
I wasn't sure whether the problem was:
the source feeds
the planet feeds
Google Reader itself
so I decided to investigate further with my own fee
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OMG, That Was A Big Day
Biz via Twitter Blog on Wed, 05 Nov. 2008
Congratulations @barackobama, it looks like you'l
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A vote for broadband in the "white spaces"
A Googler via The Official Google Blog on Tue, 04 Nov. 2008
All eyes are on the presidential election today, but another important vote
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Daylight Saving Time
(unknown author) via James Tauber's Blog on Tue, 04 Nov. 2008
Yesterday I was asked at work what the origins of daylight savings were. People who know me know I can never just say "I don't know" to a question like that—I had to go do some research.
The short answer is "war and golf" but here is a longer version, gleaned from various articles online and a little prior knowledge on the topic.
While Benjamin Frankl
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Fixes and (smaller) feats on Halloween
Dan via FriendFeed Blog on Mon, 03 Nov. 2008
To cap off a very busy October, we had a "fix-it day" at the FriendFeed office, where we take a break from our big projects to make time for bug fixes and small features. Here are some of the things we worked on:
Improved Real-time feed
You can expand entries in the real-time feed by clicking the chat bubble. The expan
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