Python is a general-purpose, high-level programming language. Its design philosophy emphasizes programmer productivity and code readability. Python's core syntax and semantics are minimalist, while th... More
Not content to dominate search and online advertising, two operating systems, and cross-platform browser, Google is now getting into the programming language business as well. Yesterday Google announced Go a brand-new systems programming language. Why does Google need Go? According to the FAQ on the site, Google saw a gap in the existing systems programming languages, and the company decided it was "worth trying again with a new language" that has taken ideas from other systems programming languages as well as scripting languages like Python and JavaScript.
If there's any upside to the lousy economy, it's that it has pushed a lot of people to realize their dreams of starting small businesses or going into business for themselves. Thanks to open source projects like Tryton, small businesses have the tools to run with the big dogs. Tryton is a general application platform that is split into three parts: A client, server, and modules that provide functionality like accounting, invoicing, sale and purchase management, inventory management, and so on. The default set of modules provides much of the functionality any small (or large) business needs to track its money, inventory, and employee's time.
Why one writer can never be exclusive to Linux and open source on the desktop. The file compatibility of the current productivity stack and the lack of some applications matter.
Open source does not work well for bad guys. While some researchers express fear of malware writers using open source to improve their work, it actually doesn't help them.
OpenID implementation works on mobile platforms. Swedish company Accumulate has implemented a version of the OpenID standard for mobile phones.
Atlanta Linux Fest: Top 9 Ubuntu highlights. Many of the standing-room-only sessions focused on Canonical and Ubuntu.
How one Melburnian spent Software Freedom Day. He introduced an audience to Python.
I am about to write some code to process RSS feeds. However, I am finding that I have to special case for the several different types of RSS standards that our there (Atom 1.0, RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0, etc.). There are some libraries out there, and I was wondering what people had to say about which ones might make sense. I'm open to writing this in Python, Java, PHP or Ruby.
Hello. I am looking for a good library that will help me parse RSS feeds. Has anyone used feedparser? Any feedback?
For a long time I had been looking for a good wiki software. media wiki is good but not for the faint of heart. Requires the wiki markup language to write (excluding plugins)
deki wiki is good but works on mono.
Can anyone recommend good wiki software with capabilities of dekiwiki but in PHP/python?
Hello. I have a python script that requires libxml2 import. I cannot find the libxml2 package on the default mac python installation. Where can I get it from? I did not find it on python.org. Maybe I didn't look in the right places?
I am looking for a tool to allow me to find out the response headers that are being sent back from my server. I am thinking of writing a script that makes an HTTP request, but I don't want to do cookie management, etc to get to sections of my site that require me to login. What tools can I use that will dump the http headers and show me a request/response trail for my web app? The web app is running on apache and is written in python.