A really nice tool for everyone developing Django. Together with virtual-env, django-evolution, fabric, pip and pydev it’s a pretty nice development environment. Get it here.
Well – pydev is currently living a dangerous life – spent my whole afternoon hunting down some well hidden problems – might be I’ll switch to vim for python development really soon … well normally pydev is great – eclipse just isn’t.
Germany is getting damn stupid internetfiltering. Here’s the one line to circumvent it for unixoid operating systems.
… seems the Deutsche Bahn does not like the truth – especially when it is in the wild. Thanks Markus Beckedahl for setting it free.
Here comes the New Launchpad podcast actually there already two episodes online (here is the second one) – hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
Just read a very amusing (and german) open Letter to Mrs. Merkel concerning the “thing” which is called “Intellectual Property” by a lot of people.
This is kind of very VERY INTERESSTING. Might be it takes some of the pain out of php-programming.
Guess I should get a little bit more verbose on, why I am so happy just by the announcement of yet another PHP-Framework.
First of all – I hate PHP, but I love TYPO3 (in spite of being PHP-based). TYPO3 has proven very solid in the years I use it. It’s backend might seem complicated, but once you understand the basic principles, it is very easy to handle and to enhance. For me TYPO3 lifted PHP-programming to a new level – usable libs, simple, but yet efficient design (considering it is a PHP-programm).
The public announcement of the FLOW3 framework is the first visible step towards abandoning the PHP4-style and consequently using the new PHP5 possibilities.
In addition to this the very will of using modern design-patterns and programming-techniques (which is even more important than the consequent usage of the new OO-features of PHP5) in order to be ready for the future, shows it’s first (very promising) fruits.
The way, the TYPO3-project chose to try to remain in the market is one of professionalisation – coding for TYPO3 will at the same time become more difficult and easy. TYPO3/FLOW3 seems to be a promising opportunity for PHP-Coders to become better programmers and write better programs (faster).
I am very enthusiastic about the consequent architectural approach chosen for the TYPO3-to-come and I wish them the very best (even though they should have taken the opportunity to drop PHP and switch to python 
).