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July 30, 2003

Python 2.3

Python 2.3 final has been released. Andrew Kuchling continues his 'new features' tradition with What's New in Python 2.3.

Posted by Brian at 2:48 PM |

July 27, 2003

datemath

datemath is a nifty tool from Steve Friedl for doing date arithmetic such as "Today + 5 days" or "12/25/2003 - today". Very useful for shell scripts.

Posted by Brian at 1:37 PM |

"Blog This" bookmarklets for Safari

The default "Blog This" bookmarklets for Movable Type don't seem to work in Apple's Safari browser. Fortunately, Dori Smith has made some shiny new ones that do.

Posted by Brian at 1:35 PM |

Gentoo SELinux Demo Machine

This is pretty cool: an Internet-accessible demo machine running Gentoo Linux integrated with the NSA's SELinux security enhancements. They actually give out the box's root password in an attempt to show that with capability-enhanced Linux, even having root doesn't mean the box is compromised.

Posted by Brian at 1:30 PM |

July 14, 2003

Pogo Linux MySQL Appliance

Now this is one of those "why didn't I think of that ideas": Pogo Linux and the MySQL folks are teaming up to make a turn-key MySQL appliance that comes with a MySQL support contract built into the price. A few more details can be found on Jeremy Zawodny's blog from OSCON.

Posted by Brian at 4:21 PM |

IBM Looks at Twisted

IBM's developerWorks site has a solid introduction to the Twisted network application framework for Python. I've done quite a bit of reading about Twisted, but so far I haven't managed to wrap my head around it (mostly due to lack of time to dig in and play with it), but it certainly looks pretty nifty.

Posted by Brian at 11:25 AM |

MySQL Date Arithmetic

DevShed takes a look at the API for doing date and time arithmetic inside MySQL. It's almost always better to do basic date calculations inside the database before you get the result set back, since that way you're getting "good data" from the database without having to "massage" it in your application-layer code.

Posted by Brian at 11:22 AM |