Mapjack is a very interesting project if you love mapping and couch riding. Sheer genius!
Thomas Brox have a nice article on how to setup Persistent Django on Amazon EC2 and the newly public EBS (Elastic Block Store).
Jason Sobel of Facebook explains a couple of tricks they use to deal with consistency between their California and Virginia data centres. The first is to hijack the MySQL replication stream to include information about memcached records to invalidate; the second is to use Layer 7 load balancers which inspect a “last modification time” cookie [...]
Django 1.0 Beta 1 is released today in accordance with the Django 1.0 release roadmap. The next release — Django 1.0 RC is scheduled for 21st August, 2008 — and the final Django 1.0 for 2nd September, 2008.
The Good thing is that our beta releases are well in-lined with Django releases and we should be [...]
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (THE “IP” court in the US) has held that free licenses such as the CC licenses set conditions (rather than covenants) on the use of copyrighted work. When you violate the condition, the license disappears, meaning you’re simply a copyright infringer. This is the theory of the GPL [...]