a very interesting DevOps tool, equivalant to Chef
Salt is a remote execution and configuration management tool.
Salt is designed to be secure using AES encryption and public-key authentication; incredibly scalable using an advanced ZeroMQtopology; fast and efficient using msgpack; and extensible using small and simple Python modules.
The monthly PyWebIL meetup was held yesterday, with a talk by Tikal's expert Alex Arshavski, & 2 other very interesting talks on ZeroMQ and MineCraft bots.
My summaries are here:
Google AppEngine has just came out of "Preview" today, & changed the pricing model & quotas accordingly. A major change in the pricing model is that instead of charging for the total CPU time of DB operations, they are now charged by the number of DB operations. This means that instead of tunning the DB operations themselves, a much better approach will be to just batch them together (when possible).
Architects look at thousands of buildings during their training, and study critiques of those buildings written by masters. In contrast, most software developers only ever get to know a handful of large programs well—usually programs they wrote themselves—and never study the great programs of history. As a result, they repeat one another's mistakes rather than building on one another's successes.
This book's goal is to change that. In it, the authors of twenty-five open source applications explain how their software is structured, and why.
Some notes & source-code from the talk given in TheJunction. Links to more source code & resources can be found at the bottom of this post.
Screencast recording
(not the actual talk, but almost identical):
In the last conference of the Israeli Internet Association, there was a day-long Django workshop by one of its founders - Jacob Kaplan-Moss. It was intended for people new to Python & Django & I highly recommend it for anyone wishing to start learning Django.
Here's the full video of the workshop (slides are also available under each video).
Enjoy.
I saw an ad for a famous US consulting & training company, & went in to check their courses schedule. I was sure it will be mainly Java & J2EE courses & maybe some .Net & Flex.
This is what I found:
http://bignerdranch.com/schedule
Some Python & Django, a little Ruby, but almost all Mobile - iPhone, iPad & Android.
We'd better get ready for this trend, before it will be too late..
Introduction
Confucius Task Manager or simple Conficius. The idea is standing behind was to create an interactive, annoying, really annoying tool which is able to manage your life daily TODO list, makes sure you are making progress in your current task, reminds you about your uncompleted work, and again makes sure and reminds you and, finally, rates you progress at end of the day.
How it works
The next 2 PyWeb-IL meetups will be in the form of a Django-Dash-like contest. Django-Dash is an event in which teams compete in developing useful applications, in a limited time. This will allow people to code together, in a fun & motivating framework. Actually, the planned event will not be a Dash (more like a Stroll), because the teams will be able to continue working on it for a whole month.