Category Archives: General

Vote for oCricket at KillerStartups

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Amazon opens up its Flexible Payments Service

TechFlash report a good news of Amazon opening up its Flexible Payment Service to everyone.

oCricket on Alltop

We got on to Alltop’s Cricket section, starting from the bottom. Thanks to Guy Kawasaki and Neenz Faleafine for assisting us with the inclusion.

“Alltop is an ‘online magazine rack’ of popular topics. They update the stories every hour. Pick a topic by searching, news category, or name, and they’ll deliver it to you 24 × [...]

The Cricket Feeds

We’ve few more days to go before we open up the new UI and the whole new site to public. Nonetheless, our Feeds are totally open and finalized.

If you wish to stay ahead of the Cricket curve, subscribe to the feed of your choice.

Articles (or pick just the Excerpts)
Links
Photos
Videos

oCricket Blog
The Team’s Prologue

Python 3.0 released

Python 3.0 (a.k.a. “Python 3000″ or “Py3k”) is a new version of the language that is incompatible with the 2.x line of releases. The language is mostly the same, but many details, especially how built-in objects like dictionaries and strings work, have changed considerably, and a lot of deprecated features have finally been removed. Also, [...]

South brings migrations to Django applications

The main objectives of South are to provide a simple, stable and database-independent migration layer to prevent all the hassle schema changes over time bring to your Django applications.

Notes on a Django Migration

Scott Hacker, has posted an interesting, and quite detailed post discussing a developer’s move to Django. It’s both a personal account and a researched account, which makes for a strong post.

Read the article — Notes on a Django Migration.

GitX

GitX is a git GUI specifically for Mac OS X. It currently features a history viewer much like gitk and a commit GUI like git gui. But then in silky smooth OS X style!

Google Hosting YUI

Google has been hosting some of the popular AJAX libraries for awhile, now YUI have been added to that roster. Developers now have the choice between yui.yahooapis.com and ajax.googleapis.com when evaluating hosting options for YUI files.

Via: YUI Blog.

Amazon CloudFront

Amazon have announced their new CDN – CloudFront.

As with all other AWS, there are no minimum usage commitments, no monthly fees and the setup is plain and straight forward. Here are the steps;

Sign up for CloudFront.
Put your most frequently accessed static content into an Amazon S3 bucket and mark it as publicly readable.
Create a new [...]

Django-Taggable

Gustavo Picon, announced his new project django-taggable. As the author describes, django-taggable is “An efficient, denormalized and multidimensional tagging library for Django 1.0+”