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Framework that combines Jython and Hadoop to make writing distributed mapreduce in Python easy. This might finally get me to dive into Hadoopyness.

Django hits the big One Point Oh. Congratulations to all involved. I hope to have groovymother switched over to 1.0 this weekend.

Suspect I will be referring to this a lot over the next week or so as I bring my blog code up to snuff with the impending Django 1.0 release. (Currently have 95% working, but the hackedup comments code will take a bit more work…)

Excellent geekyblog recommended to me by a co-worker. Interesting articles, which delve into algorithms and some of the guts of Python I never consider.

My SimpleDB account got enabled yesterday, so I’m looking forward to getting stuck into it. This looks like a handy Python library for accessing it (and the other Amazon Web Services)

Cool prototype application by Tom Insam which monitors your foreground application in OS X, and tries to provide you some context by matching it to someone in your Address Book. It’s early days yet, but decidedly cool (and written in Python)

The published (but not final — there’s still functionality for comments and improvements) version of The Django Book is up.

Control AppleScript from Python. The prospect of using Python to hack on my iTunes library is massively exciting!

Free development environment for Python code under .NET. Will definitely be having an in-depth play with this soon.

“You’re flying! How?” “Python!”

Work-in-progress project to keep database schemas in sync with changes made to Django models.

Quick guide to installing ssh, Python and Django on your iPhone, so you can run local webapps. OK, I admit defeat: I’m finally tempted to hack my iPhone and install crap on it!

Good summary of some of the powerful pieces of Python that are easy to overlook if you’re used to other, let’s say “more verbose”, languages. I’ve been coding in Python for close to three years, and there was stuff I learned here (dict.setdefault: where have you been all my life?)

Bunch of interesting topics covered at the Django tutorial at OSCON yesterday. I hadn’t heard of Django signals before, but can already think of three hacks in my code that they can replace!

Python library that analyses a corpus of web pages, works out where the dynamic values are in the template, then allows you to scrape out the juicy details. I can think of oh, so many uses for this.

The bug that was fixed in Python 2.5.1 which caused permalinks in my blog to break this afternoon, cause I was working around it.

Simon Willison’s OpenID consuming middleware for Django. I’ll probably have a stab at mixing this with my blog comments shortly.

This could come in handy for sanity checking syntax when writing PHP. Bizarrely, it’s mostly written in Python!

Python library for working with Google’s GData web services (Calendar, Blogger, Picasa et al)