I have an old Linux server that sits, sad and muted, unused in a corner. I decided to blow the dust off of it, and see what I can wrangle out of it.
For the morbidly curious: it’s a Fedora Core 1 install, running on a Dell Poweredge server. It has a crusty [...]
I really haven’t spent much time looking around at Python blogs/pages/etc lately. But, since I’m procrastinating from the whole NaNoWriMo thing, I spent time today doing that.
Easy Python decorators –some examples of creating Python function decorators using the decorator module.
Python 3 Patterns and Idioms –early development of an open source book to discuss patterns and [...]
I forget where exactly I found this, but the other day I needed a quick Python method to send an HTML email — in my case, it was in response to a Web CGI request, but this example below is usable anywhere. The bits that need to be changed for different situations should be evident [...]
In software engineering, the singleton pattern is a design pattern that is used to restrict instantiation of a class to one object. This is useful when exactly one object is needed to coordinate actions across the system. Sometimes it is generalized to systems that operate more efficiently when only one or a few objects exist.
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I just saw this article about EVE Online’s Server Model. Very interesting and informative read, and a testament to Stackless’s reliability and usability.
