Where have all the good projects gone?
moved to http://nodsw.com/blog/leeland/2008/03/19-where-have-all-good-projects-goneLabels: Amdocs, Centos 4, DJango, Python
posted by Leeland @ 10:20 AM
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Hope is a waking dream and the wisest people follow their own direction. So I dream of things that never were and ask why not?
About Me
- Name: Leeland
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
Basically I'm a code janitor with tenure (software engineer / systems analyst / application developer) with over 2 decades of experience. I enjoy software design especially dealing with database systems and systems integration. When not creating my own pile of goo I regularly get to sweep up messes in Java, Python, Jython, SQL, C, PERL, PHP, UNIX Shells and HTML. I have toiled and explored the paths of UNIX/Linux, Multics and I even do Windows. People say I have a knack at re-engineering, optimizing legacy applications as well as database tuning. Which is odd for a Navy trained lad although I have also gotten the revered papers of education from the University of Phoenix (BSIT 3.92 GPA) and from Oracle, Novell, USENIX, and others.
Quote: | If we wrote the code correctly why is the computer dancing across the floor? |
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1 Comments:
A lot of the issues with Django I've noted as well. They shine on some bits, fall over on others. I know I had a fit upgrading to Python 2.5 on my Ubuntu box, too.
Oddly enough, keeping Python up to date and compatible is easier on a Win box. Usually it's just a matter of unzipping the package and dropping it in lib\site-packages. Ubuntu made me deal with all those nasty symlinks and I never knew for sure that what I had copied over would actually get used.
Something to look at is setuptools. Those libs released as .eggs are easy to maintain using setuptools.
In fact, with Turbogears you get the whole thing built on eggs. Downside: it's frankenstein's monster.
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