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Python

A Simple App Engine Picture API

Making a micro web service for processing and resizing images.

Because it's Unix

Watch the cascade from Ruby is Unix to Python is Unix to Perl is Unix.

Putting Python and Django on the iPhone

Not for the weak of heart, but the prospect of wrangling the call database with Django is a tantalizing hint of things to come...

What is Missing from Modern Programming Languages?

There’s still a lot of important dialogue about the standard features of modern programming languages that hasn’t happened yet.

Only Magic to Those with Inadequate Understanding

A quote from Raganwald: “The correct response is not calling arbitrary features ‘magic’. It’s programming. That’s all.”

Technē 1: Gordon, Gremlins, and Pipeline Programming

Py3000

Python 3.0a1 release hits the network, with significant backwards incompatible changes. The best way to describe this is a shedding of the snake's skin, sloughing off a whole bunch of weird ambiguities…