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Tools for developing Dynamic Web Sites
I started developing web sites about an year ago. When I started out I did not know of any of the frameworks which make the job of developing a dynamic web site easy. I spent a lot of time finding tools which suited my need.
In this post I have listed the tools I use. It [...]
Django book
The long awaited Django book has been released. The book is now available in stores and online at http://www.djangobook.com/en/1.0/.
Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design. Django was designed to make common Web-development tasks fast and easy. More info about Django can be found here http://www.djangoproject.com/.
Some [...]
The Zen of Python
I liked this a lot. Programming philosophy that I believe in.
Taken from http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/ Author: Tim Peters <tim at zope.com>
Beautiful is better than ugly.
Explicit is better than implicit.
Simple is better than complex.
Complex is better than complicated.
Flat is better than nested.
Sparse is better than dense.
Readability counts.
Special cases aren’t special enough to break the rules.
Although practicality beats purity.
Errors [...]
Script to ping Technocrati
Getting your blog listed on technocrati may be a good way to increase traffic to ur site. I have written a Python script to ping technocrati with your blog details. Here is a link to the script. The script could be quite useful to automatically ping Technocrati for all your blogs using a cron [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )Comparison of REST Vs XML-RPC
Some background of the protocols
Rest protocol uses the HTTP GET and HTTP PUT methods to communicate with an application server. For example an API for a typical application would look like
http://example.com/users/
http://example.com/users/{user} (one for each user)
http://example.com/findUserForm
http://example.com/locations/
http://example.com/locations/{location} (one for each location)
http://example.com/findLocationForm
The client typically a webbrowser needs to construct HTTP requests and parse XML or HTML responses.
XML-RPC [...]
A script to remove spaces from a file name
Removing spaces from file names
I face a lot of problem while dealing with files with spaces in their names on the Unix platform. I wrote a script yesterday to change the spaces in a file name to undescores.
It is very useful for changing the names of all files in a directory along with directory names.
Save [...]
