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Fetchez le Python
Personal blog · tarekziade.wordpress.comprogrammingweb
Fetchez le Python is a personal blog at tarekziade.wordpress.com about programming and web. Since 2008, 19 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times. The last post was in 2012, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Tarek Ziadé's blog for its posts on Python packaging and distutils2, a Firefox Sync rewrite in Python, and a Django 1.3 vs Rails 3 comparison. Comments mostly cite it as a source.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Technical blog on the Python programming language, in a pure Frenglish style. Main topics are Python and Mozilla - This blog does not engage my employer
Most-linked posts?
- /2010/03/03/the-fate-of-distutils-pycon-summit-packaging-sprint-detailed-report/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-03-18
What Hacker News says?
For anyone who wants to help Python wrt packaging, get behind [Tarek] and his work on distutils2. That's the future of Python packaging (with Guido's blessing) [^1]. More info on python packaging temporarily at http://guide.python-distribute.org/ . There's also a [packaging discussion group] which seems to be primarily focused on distutils2 development. [Tarek]: http://ziade.org/ [^1]: http://tarekziade.wordpress.co…
Comment linking /2010/03/03/the-fate-of-distutils-pycon-summit-packaging-sprint-detailed-report/
on “Ruby is beautiful (but I'm moving to Python)”Submitted Firefox Sync is now 100% Python as a story · 82 points
HN discussion- po · 2011-06-19
Absolutely. It's ok if you're installing Django to run some 3rd party software but if you're actually building something you need to support it's important to have more control over your environment/libraries than the system-level package manager provides. The author gets it right on the Ruby side but their lack of experience on the python side here is showing. Pip and virtualenv are definitely the way to go today.…
Comment linking /2010/02/10/pep-345-and-386-accepted-summary-of-changes/
on “Django 1.3 vs Rails 3: A not so final showdown” Submitted Scaling Crypto work in Python as a story · 58 points
HN discussionInteresting remark from the author in a reply to one of the comments: "Most server-side Mozilla projects are moving to a Python-based eco-system."[1] [1] http://tarekziade.wordpress.com/2011/07/12/firefox-sync-pyth...
Comment linking /2011/07/12/firefox-sync-python/
on “Firefox Sync is now 100% Python”Submitted URLs in books as a story · 13 points
HN discussion> Well... hopefully R6 will pull things together a bit. Do you mean "R7"? Because R6 seems to have actually done the opposite. > Personally I'm not a real fan of cpan. The qualilty is sort of hit and miss. The hit-or-miss quality is a necessary "evil" for having something as good as the CPAN. Yes, it's got a lot of crap, but there are a lot of gems that save many people a lot of work. > I like python's approach bett…
Comment linking /2010/03/03/the-fate-of-distutils-pycon-summit-packaging-sprint-detailed-report/
on “Why I Hate Scheme”Submitted How to stress test your web app using Funkload as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Funkload + Fabric = quick and dirty distributed load system as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted More Privacy Please as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What would be a good way to make PyPI more reliable? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Defining a WSGI deployment standard as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Firefox Sync Server in Python — Take 1 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Distutils2 vs Pip as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted PEP 376 is accepted — What it means as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted C10K performance with python as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Twisted Rocks as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Simple command-line password vault : CLVault as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Python Isolated Environment (PIE) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Python: The WSGI era is here as a story · 1 points
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