Mitch Garnaat’s excellent Python and AWS Cookbook is now 50% off ($6.49) in Ebook format (ePub, Mobi, PDF). The book features some great recipes, straight from the maintainer of boto.

While the book isn’t unfriendly to those looking at boto for the first time, it really shines ...

If you are running nginx as a proxy in front of An Amazon Web Services Elastic Load Balancer (ELB), it is not safe to merely define an upstream using the hostname of ELB and call it a day. By default, nginx will only do name resolution at startup time, caching ...

Our Python-based, open source (BSD) distributed encoding system, media-nommer, is inching closer to what we’ll call an initial 1.0 release. We’d love to have other developers take a look, try our documentation, and help us chase down flaws before we stick a 1.0 on this thing ...

I’ve been using CouchDB as the data store for my in-development MUD, Dawn of the Titans. So far it’s been very enjoyable to work with, through the CouchDB Python module. I’ll take a moment to share my experiences, for those who might be interested.

To provide some ...

One of the worse parts about writing a codebase from scratch for a specific game is the staggering amount of foundation work that has to happen before you can really start making visible progress. Database layers, object representation and manipulation, account management, exits, and a basic set of global commands ...

Around July of 2009, a post was made to the AWS Developer Forums for S3 (which the S3 team reads and responds to) asking for the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header to be allowed on keys. The primary motivator for this is that sites would be able to store things like webfonts in ...

Disclaimer: I am not at all involved with PyPy development, planning, or management. You are about to see cheer-leading, but it’s not because this is my project.

PyPy has recently posted  ”Call for donations - PyPy to support Numpy!” There has been some initial ground work laid by Alex Gaynor ...

When a free service or module proves to be invaluable to your project(s), it’s only right to thank the authors for their excellent work. I thought I’d take a brief moment to thank all of the contributors behind Read the Docs for this simple but wonderful site ...

I’ve obviously been on a bit of a proxied MUD server tangent of late (see here and here). I typically haunt #evennia on FreeNode, and brought the point up to the current maintainer, Griatch, a few weeks ago. As is typical for Griatch when he finds something he likes ...

As mentioned in my previous post about putting a MUD behind a proxy, I’ve been really intrigued by some of the things such a setup would allow. In fact, my motivation was enough to warrant actually trying to implement my own interpretation. My implementation of this split proxy/MUD ...