Crowdsourced document analysis and MP expenses
Blog de Simon Willison Posted on December 20, 2009
As you may have heard, the UK government released a fresh batch of MP expenses documents a week ago on Thursday. I spent that week working with a small team at Guardian HQ to prepare for the release. Here’s what we built:
http://mps-expenses2.guardian.co.uk/
It’s a crowdsourcing application that asks the public to help us ...
Django-Jython 1.0.0 released!
Blog de Simon Willison Posted on November 9, 2009
Django-Jython 1.0.0 released!. Now with database backends for PostgreSQL, Oracle and MySQL. The next release (planned for next month) should provide full compatibility with Django 1.1—the current release has 1.1 support for PostgreSQL but only 1.0 support for the other two databases.
MySQL Connector/Python
Blog de Simon Willison Posted on October 2, 2009
MySQL Connector/Python. A pure Python implementation of the MySQL client/server protocol, meaning you can talk to a MySQL server from Python without needing to first install the MySQL client libraries (which often requires compiling from source).
Installing Django, Solr, Varnish and Supervisord with Buildout
Blog de Simon Willison Posted on June 7, 2009
Installing Django, Solr, Varnish and Supervisord with Buildout. Useful, detailed instructions... but I still think this stuff is Way Too Difficult at the moment. I’m a big fan of the idea of sites that are assembled from multiple smaller web services talking HTTP to each other, but ensuring all the moving parts stay running is massively more painful than ...
Using the New MySQL Query Profiler
Blog de Simon Willison Posted on October 1, 2008
Using the New MySQL Query Profiler. Extremely powerful new feature in MySQL 5.0.37. Definitely something for the Django debug toolbar.