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Python supports a simple type of multiple inheritance which allows the creation of Mixins.

There is a small but growing Python community in Japan.

I’m the kind of guy that likes to be open about data and such I thought it might be interesting to share what kind of access pattern my humble little bi-lingual blog gets.

I recently redesigned my homepage to streamline it and give it a different look and feel.

This year’s Google IO page has a nifty little game that allows you to build a machine that guides a ball from an input chute to an output chute.

Recently there have been a lot of conversations on the Django mailing list about fixing the auth module.

The other day I watched the talk “The coming war on general computation” by Boing Boing editor Cory Doctorow.

There was a recent article I read online about how working working over 40 hours a week makes you less productive.

I had an application with two lists of unique items that I wanted to take the intersection of.

The Kay team just just released Kay 1.1!

(This post is the English translation of the Dec. 24th edition of the Python Web Framework Advent Calendar 2010.

I recently played around with and figured out how to get syncing working with my iPhone 3GS and Ubuntu Lucid.

Google App Engine 1.4.0 was just released and has lots of interesting new features.

The other day I released bpssl which is a Django application that helps you support HTTPS on your website.

For a recent project I recently I have been using App Engine’s cron feature to aggregate data and perform maintenance tasks.

In Python you sometimes want to dynamically add methods to classes or class instances (objects).

I just read a piece called We Are All Talk Radio Hosts which mentions some studies saying that the more we humans think about things, the more we make bad decisions.

Google docs wouldn’t let me share the presentation publicly with people outside our company’s domain and it gave me an error when I tried to download it as a PowerPoint file or PDF so I was forced to recreate my presentation locally.

Today I found that Google Chrome was making lots of background connections to 1e100.net.

Today I got an email from a friend on Facebook that suggested that I try out this application called “Only 4% of harvard grads can solve this riddle..”.

Since I’ve started using Chrome as my main browser for surfing I have noticed that some web applications seem to redirect to 404 pages.

I started a project today to implement an interface for the open-vcdiff using Cython.

Recently at work my coworker Shinya Okano came across Modipyd written by Takanori Ishikawa.

I came across a little annoyance in Django today.

This is cool Django application from Yasushi Masuda which allows you to render data to a pdf using trml2pdf.

I recently read a blog post that is a satirical look at how to gain a reputation as a guru programmer by converting code to your own code and making it hard for other programmers to get their work done.

I recently read a couple of posts on the openness of the iPad and the effect it will have on tinkering and computer hacking.

One thing that many people using App Engine know is that writing schema migrations is hard.

Running Django FastCGI with daemontools is rather easy but getting it to run in the foreground with the proper user takes a bit of knowledge about how Bash works and the tools in daemontools.

mercurial usually shows inactive branches when running “hg branches” but that’s kind of annoying if you have lots of old inactive branches.

Django’s development server doesn’t normally support HTTPS so it’s hard to test applications with HTTPS without deploying the application to a real web server that supports HTTPS.

Recently I’ve been forking Subversion (SVN) repositories by converting them to mercurial repositories and uploading them to Bitbucket.

My good friend Takashi Matsuo wrote an interesting blog post about start-up times of various frameworks on App Engine.

Recently I got some tests working for my django-lifestream project.

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Recently I needed to be able to parse out attachments and body from multipart emails and use the resulting data to post to a service.

Since I’ve been using it for a while now I’ve gotten a good idea about what is good and what is annoying about development with django.

I recently used the new feature in Django 1.1 for reversing django admin URLs and specifying custom admin views in my project django-lifestream.

Over the weekend we had some problems with EC2 in which some instances could not be connected to via a network.

I recently started using mercurial’s mq extension at work as I found myself switching between changes a lot.

One problem I keep encountering with setting up fastcgi with Django is that the default nginx fastcgi parameters cause django to load the top url no matter what url you try to go to.

Yesterday I released a pet project I had been working on called Smipple.

Reiko and her dog Lala came over and we had a pretty relaxing weekend.

The Google App Engine SDK 1.2.3 was just released and contains some often asked for goodies such as Django 1.0 support and support for a task queue API.