Four short links: 9 Jan 2009 - O'Reilly Radar
By Nat Torkington
[January 08, 2009]

Four questions, one per link: what next, can it solve a big problem, what's the final boss for Python programming, and why on earth would anyone want yogurt that glows in the dark? End Times - gloomy piece on the future of journalism, to be added to the large pile of other gloomy pieces on the future of journalism (e.g.,...

Antipodean Python: Wellington, NZ PUG - O'Reilly Broadcast
By Noah Gift
[December 21, 2008]

I recently moved down to Wellington, New Zealand, and was excited to learn that Python is very popular on this side of the world. A few of us on the NZPUG mailing list decided to arrange a meeting a local...

The New Newspaper Editor: Your Neighbors and Some Python Code - O'Reilly
By Timothy M. O'Brien
[December 09, 2008]

Since the Tribune Company is about to file for bankruptcy, I thought I'd take some time to introduce you to your new Newspaper Editor. The replacement is an algorithm and a crowd of people, or is it? Are collaborative filters adequate replacements for human editorial decision-making? Is collaborative filtering making us more or less informed? Do we need to start thinking about transparency for collaborative filters? Just how do these algorithms work?

PyMOTW: readline - O'Reilly Broadcast
By Doug Hellmann
[November 30, 2008]

Python's readline module provides an interface to the GNU readline library for interacting with the user at a command prompt.

Are Computer Languages Irrelevant? - O'Reilly Broadcast
By Kurt Cagle
[November 24, 2008]

I spend a significant amount of my working day staring at a web window pane within a browser. That browser may be written in C++ but is increasingly likely to be written in JavaScript or Python of even Java, not necessarily because these languages are any faster, but because these languages are generally easier to work with.

Spring Python and Amara - O'Reilly Broadcast
By Uche Ogbuji
[November 12, 2008]

Spring Python is an offshoot of the Java-based Spring Framework and Spring Security for Python. Version 0.8.0 is out and, and it builds on my favorite FLOSS project, Amara.

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