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Ten months ago when I started at Mozilla, I began transitioning away from PHP and into Python and Django.

This was inevitable: the Mozilla Webdev team favors Python over PHP in almost every webapp (Socorro is the critical exception).

However, over time I had become disillusioned with the direction that PHP was taking. The project [...]

Linuxaria: "Miro, first launched in 2005 then revamped in 2007 (it was first launched as Democracy Player), is written in Python."

Today Rasmus mentioned that he received a $500 offer for the php.net domain name. Discussion ensued, which ultimately led to the indisputable belief that php.net is worth over 10 million US dollars.

Therefore, let’s think about this further: Languages by worth [1] (in USD): php.net : $10,176,050 python.org : $4,088,792 perl.org : $246,064 ruby-lang.org : [...]

In a previous article extended file attributes were presented. These are additional bits of metadata that are tied to the file and can be used in a variety of ways.

One of these ways is to add checksums to the file so that corrupted data can be detected. Let's take a look at how we can do this including some simple Python examples. Continue reading →

PACKT Publishing: "In this article, we will develop a wiki of our own, and in doing so, we will focus on two important concepts in building web applications.

The first one is the design of the data layer. The second one is input validation."

PACKT Publishing: "Testing has always been a part of software development. Testing includes many different styles including unit testing, integration testing, acceptance testing, smoke testing, load testing, and countless others."

ServerWatch: "As a data junkie, I'm forever looking for better ways to display charts and graphs, especially from Python.

There are lots of Python plotting packages available, but if you want output that's pretty enough that even your Mac friends will be impressed, consider using CairoPlot."

An alien's viewpoint: "What is Python? Python is a computer programming language created initially by Guido Van Rossum, who released it to the world as an “Open Source” “Free”program"

Technology FLOSS: "So, you have a broken RAID5 and found the article I wrote for the Free Software Magazine 5 years ago about it and would like to give it a shot.

First off: Good luck! You are gonna need it."