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Pretending python is a shell ============================ We all like python for scripting, because it's so much more powerful than a shell.

I suppose it's a bit like that film The Matrix - you realize that you live in an ethereal and closed world only when you actually get to step outside of it.

OpenStack has emerged to become a cloud standard platform in recent years with major IT vendors including, IBM, HP, Dell and Cisco all embracing the open source cloud platform.

You can easily open up existing views to the API by adding a single decorator. This is useful if you want to create applications on mobile devices which connect to your Django website, but where only your clients are expected to access the API.

This post will describe a recent problem a colleague had with his UI and how his issue was resolved.

Clear Channel Fort Collins will debut a new sound on KPAW-HD2 and translator 94.9, "Radio 94.9 Colorado's Finest Rock." Market Manager Stu Haskell says, "Radio 94.9 will be a perfect fit for the Fort Collins local music scene and lifestyle.

John Lewis is to launch a new technology apprenticeship scheme this year, which will see the firm further expand its IT department.

Deployments are described in a model using "components" and can be deployed locally and remotely.

Two days ago, Google announced it would finally support the most popular computing language on the planet , PHP, in its platform-as-a-service offering, Google App Engine.

TXR is a new data munging language to replace the likes of awk and Perl. TXR's special pattern language provides template-based matching of entire documents or large sections of documents.

Google long has been a firm believer that JavaScript, the programming language used to build Web apps such as Google Maps and Gmail, could shoulder a much heavier computing load.

Analyst Al Hilwa said Google, with its Compute Engine now offered to anyone, "is doing all the right things to become a serious cloud platform competitor." He added that Google had previously "evolved App Engine rapidly enough" and now serious developers "will be watching how aggressively they move forward." At an event Wednesday at its I/O ... (more)

Some present a simple line-based worldview. Bad-Good for instance. Where do you want to be on the line? Republican-democrat? Ruby-Python? Foreigner-native? Once you think along those lines you tend to start thinking in opposites.

Hoping to entice more enterprises to use the R statistical programming language directly within their predictive modeling and data visualization jobs, Tibco has released a free version of its R runtime engine.

Google CEO Larry Page delivered a simple message to a crowd of developers Wednesday: we need to stop fighting over little things and work together.

I am looking for some book about game programming. Are there any that are not old? I am not looking for a book that covers a specified technology like DirectX or OpenGL, but the techniques of programming the game.

I'm new to the forum as well as game development. I would like to know first and foremost the process of creating a text-based adventure game with Python.

Rackspace has launched Rackspace Developer Support, an extension of its "Fanatical Support" customer support that is specifically designed for developers.

Mapyrus is software for creating plots of points, lines, polygons, and labels in PostScript, PDF, SVG, and Web image output formats.

Oracle has changed the numbering of its Java security updates, prompting one expert to say, "As if Java updates weren't confusing already." Oracle has changed the numbering of its Java security updates, prompting one expert to say, "As if Java updates weren't confusing already." "Limited Update releases will be numbered in multiples of 20," the ... (more)