From the monthly archives:

November 2009

A simple task queue

November 25, 2009

I’m working on a little sample framework - really only to keep my sanity and practice my chosen craft - that allows you to string together tasks in a pipeline for processing. To exercise that framework - to flush out the pros and cons of the implementation - I’m writing a sample application.
The basic idea [...]

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Rapache on Ubuntu 9.10

November 15, 2009

I’ve just now stumbled across Rapache, a useful GUI tool that makes configuring apache easy. I found it by accident in the Ubuntu Software Center, but unfortunately it would freeze while trying to add a new domain. I searched the web for answers, and found a bug report.
This didn’t specifically reference Ubuntu 9.10 (rather, 9.04) [...]

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Tagging with Appengine DataStore

November 7, 2009

I’ve been looking into how to implement a tagging mechanism with Appengine (Python). By using a StringListProperty, you can associate a list of tags with an entity. The model would look something like this:

from google.appengine.ext import db

class Sample(db.Model):
name = db.StringProperty(required=True)
tags = db.StringListProperty()

Now, assuming we want to find the entities tagged with [...]

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