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A Japanese Python Community Who's Who
There is a small but growing Python community in Japan. Many people, even some
of those Python enthusiasts who living in Japan, are unaware of this and don’t
know who any of these people are. There are a lot of reasons for this but the
number one ...
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Django's contrib.auth and django-newauth
Recently there have been a lot of conversations on the Django mailing
list about fixing the auth module. Here are some of the recent mailing
list threads:
authentication by email
auth.User refactor: reboot
auth.User: The abstract base clas...
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Python Sets
I had an application with two lists of unique items that I wanted to
take the intersection of. I had figured that using a python set would be
faster but I didn’t realize that it would be faster than the simple list
comprehension by this much.
~$ ...
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Pycon JP 2011 was Awesome!
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On Saturday we held our first Python JP 2011. We had approximately 230
people show up which I think is great for a first time Python conference
in Japan. I want to thank all of the members of the planning committee,
staff, and attendees for suc...
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Pycon JP 2011
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The Python Programming Language community in Japan will be having our
first Pycon JP on August 27th at the Advanced Institute of Industrial
Technology (産業技術大学院大学) in Tokyo’s Shinagawa Seaside.
Pycon JP started in the aftermath of Pycon APAC 20...
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Kay 1.1 Released!
The Kay team just just released Kay 1.1! I want to thank Takashi
Matsuo, Nickolas Daskalou, Tasuku Suenaga, and Yosuke Suzuki for their
hard work on this release.
Kay is a web framework made specifically for Google App Engine. The
basic design of...
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An introduction to the Tipfy Framework for Appengine
(This post is the English translation of the Dec. 24th edition of the
Python Web Framework Advent
Calendar 2010. Other posts can be found
at: http://atnd.org/events/10465 though they will be in Japanese)
I usually use the kay
framework for Appeng...
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Google Appengine 1.4.0 Released!!
Google Appengine 1.4.0 was just
released and has lots of interesting new features. Channel API, “Always
On” (reserved instances), Improvements to background processing, Warm up
requests, and Metadata queries just to name the big ones.
Channel API...
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New Google Appengine API Expert
Yesterday I became the new Google Appengine API
Expert (Python)
for the Japan region. Google Experts are the equivalent for Google API
Gurus as they are called in the ‘States. I will be helping out other
developers in Japan to learn about and ...
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bpssl - The Django SSL Support Application
The other day I released bpssl which is a Django application that helps
you support HTTPS on your website. The main functionality is performing
redirection for HTTPS only URLs and views. For instance, if a request
for your login view ‘/login’ is r...
