It is the weirdest thing. I was having issues subscribing to blogs that is using pubsubhubbub.appspot.com using a Python script. It returned a 500 Internal Server error without fail. So I rewrote the process in PHP and like magic, it is gone… I used PHP and CURL to subscribe to the appspot service. In Python [...]
I find this very hard to believe, but it seems that Red Hat Europe‘s site is still powered by PHP 4. PHP 4.3.2 to top it all off. This after PHP 4 reached it’s end of life more than a year ago. I guess the old saying applies: If it’s not broken, don’t fix it! [...]
For all the wrong reasons, but still! I just love the fact that it actually uses a .html extension. Am I weird? I do feel a bit weird that I like something so arb. So the template files use the extension of what it actually contains? Wow, I love that. Revolutionary. Don’t ask me why [...]
Very good post on open source documentation via @TheKeyboard » Open Source Is Really About Documentation – Twisted vs. Tornado. Chris Brain’s point in short is: I think I can give you an executive summary of this blog post: if the documentation for an open source project sucks, nobody but the most hardcore developers will [...]
First of all, let me say that the organization of Tech Ed was simply astounding. Very well organized and very professionally executed. Besides the demo gods playing havoc and SA bandwidth not helping at all, it was brilliantly executed and I want to commend the organizers. I’m not going to repeat what has been said [...]
DZone is a social bookmarking service specifically focused on technology and software development. It is a fantastic resource. Recently they released a fantastic new service called Refcardz which is like shortcut reference documents for various programming languages or technologies. Best of all, it is FREE! From languages like PHP, Ruby, Groovy and Java all the [...]
You’ve set up Sphinx Search and everything seems to be running smooth. Now you have to put it to work. This is where the API comes into play! All the API does is it lets you communicate with the indexes you’ve created. Various programming languages are supported like: JAVA, Python, PHP and Ruby. (NOTE: The [...]