Making a micro web service for processing and resizing images.
Watch the cascade from Ruby is Unix to Python is Unix to Perl is Unix.
Not for the weak of heart, but the prospect of wrangling the call database with Django is a tantalizing hint of things to come...
There’s still a lot of important dialogue about the standard features of modern programming languages that hasn’t happened yet.
A quote from Raganwald: “The correct response is not calling arbitrary features ‘magic’. It’s programming. That’s all.”
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…