You’re reading Jeff Watkins’ thoughts about Web application design and development with a little bit of technology ranting thrown in for free.
An important part of any ORM is being able to easily query the objects contained in the database. Not every ORM handles this particularly gracefully.
Probably the most graceful I’ve seen is the Pythonic query in Dejavu where you literally write Python code which gets disassembled and turned into queries under the covers.
One of the least [...]
In my professional life, I work with COM (pity me). One of the things I really like about JavaScript and Java is the fact that they use garbage collection rather than reference counting.
I just discovered that Python also uses reference counting, but includes a garbage collector. From my primitive tests, the garbage collector doesn’t seem [...]
Well, it looks like Google has finally started feeding data into Analytics.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to support Safari.
That’s annoying. I suppose I’ll fire up Firefox and see how newburyportion.com is doing.
Update: As of this morning (17 Nov), I can’t get into Google Analytics using Firefox. The moment after I log in, I get redirected to [...]
If you look at the python.org Web site, there are quite a few different object relational mapping (ORM) libraries for Python. The only one I’m really familiar with it SQLObject, because that’s what’s included with TurboGears.
Ian Bicking, the principal author of SQLObject, has done a really great job creating a library that supports Python back [...]
Wow! Google just doesn’t rest. I just noticed on Micro Persuasion that Google is offering a free Web analytics package. The site seems to be a bit slow at the moment (surprise!) but I’m willing to give it a whirl here on newburyportion.com.