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Compare-And-Set in Memcache 26 Aug 2011 | 04:59 am
With the most recent release (1.5.3, last week) App Engine's Python API for Memcache has added a new feature, Compare-And-Set. This feature (with a different API) was already available in Java; it has...
Before Python 26 Jul 2011 | 06:17 am
This morning I had a chat with the students at Google's CAPE program. Since I wrote up what I wanted to say I figured I might as well blog it here. Warning: this is pretty unedited (or else it would n...
The depth and breadth of Python 4 Jun 2011 | 04:17 am
As of late I'm noticing a trend: I'm spending more time having in-person in-depth conversations, and less time coding. While I regret the latter, I really enjoy the former. Certainly more than weekly ...
Asynchronous RPC in App Engine Today 25 Jan 2011 | 07:07 am
While I was laying the groundwork for a new datastore client library with support for asynchronous requests, I added some low-level support for asynchronous RPCs that you can use today. The only App E...
A new App Engine datastore API 8 Jan 2011 | 09:20 am
This post is primarily intended for App Engine users (and of those, only Python users :-). Over the past months I've been working on a new design for the Python datastore API, under the code name Dat...
While-you-type Searching 12 Dec 2009 | 10:45 am
Here's an idea that is just begging to be implemented as a Firefox extension. You know how there's a while-you-type spell checker that's always on when you are editing text in a multi-line text box? ...
Python in the Scientific World 6 Nov 2009 | 07:12 am
Yesterday I attended a biweekly meeting of an informal a UC Berkeley group devoted to Python in science (Py4Science), organized by Fernando Perez. The format (in honor of my visit) was a series of 4-m...
Lovely Python! 18 Sep 2009 | 04:48 am
I just heard from Bill Xu in China. His book "Lovely Python", an introduction to Python in Chinese, was just published and shot to the top-5 of china-pub.com's bestseller list (at some point it even w...
Scientists Discover That Hidden Persuaders Are Real 23 Jul 2009 | 08:29 am
In yesterday's post I mentioned reading George Lakoff's book, The Political Mind. While I agree with the politics of the book in almost every instance, I was still disappointed. For one thing, the boo...
Progressive vs. Conservative 22 Jul 2009 | 06:50 am
[Warning: loose thoughts ahead!] Microsoft's Eric Meijer gave a talk at Google yesterday, and afterwards I had lunch with him. One of his remarks was (I paraphrase) that Microsoft users want to be to...
