http://yannramin.com Software and life Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:54:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en qsgen, the single-script static web-site generator has just hit the first release, version 0.1. In short, qsgen is a pure Python functional wrapper around Mako templates and the Pygments library. It lets you build a hierarchical set of .html pages and associated base templates using Mako, which will be transformed into ... http://yannramin.com/2008/08/13/qsgen-01-released/ Always fun here in server management land. We've hit some instabilities recently, but so far been able to track them down. Sorry about the small bursts of downtime. If you do notice EVE-Central.com not responding, feel free to send me an e-mail just in case I haven't noticed it yet. For the ... http://yannramin.com/2008/08/11/some-instability/ You may be like me, and have a large (20"+, or especially 30" in this case) monitor attached to your computer. You're also a avid computer user and have more than one program open at a time which you want to view simultaneously. You also use the keyboard much more ... http://yannramin.com/2008/08/07/big-monitors-window-management-frustration-and-finding-stumpwm/ Just a quick note: I've removed the login requirement for the comparison trade tool. Its now quick and easy to use, but still not IGB compatible due to the use of Javascript and a little AJAX. You can get to it on the main trade page. Enjoy! http://yannramin.com/2008/08/04/trade-tool-sell-order-compare-is-now-public/ Looks like EVE-Central.com went off the air for a 24-hour period this weekend. My apologizes for the outage - I was out of town and not monitoring the site closely. On another note, I've learned the virtues of making sure the environment the server was running in had enough available file ... http://yannramin.com/2008/08/03/weekend-glitch/ Thanks to a great community member, we now have data for Black Rise (the new region in Empyrean Age), before CCP has the data available in their periodic dumps. -10 points for CCP, since it has been over a month since the release of the expansion and no word yet ... http://yannramin.com/2008/07/31/black-rise-added/ Today I'm going to show you how to interface Python to Apache HBase using Facebook's Thrift package. Hbase is a documented oriented database which is very similar to Google's BigTable (in fact its more or less a clone of BigTable as seen in the BigTable paper). HBase has two primary ... http://yannramin.com/2008/07/19/using-facebook-thrift-with-python-and-hbase/ So, I'm a copious project and idea mill. Sometimes my ideas actually gain some traction, but often they languish on my hard drive. The useful ones I eventually get around to releasing though, which is what this blog post is all about. If you'll head over to StackFoundry.com you can see ... http://yannramin.com/2008/07/15/copious-project-starter-new-stuff/ Ever heard of VGA Planets? If not, then you can probably safely skip this post. But if you do, I introduce you to one of my first released programming projects. I made this in Junior High, using QBasic(!!). It was an addon for the VGA Planets HOST program which let ... http://yannramin.com/2008/07/11/old-software-archive-ship-bomb/ The relational database is dead. Long live the document database! Ok, maybe that statement is far too gloomy and patently untrue. Relational databases have their place and their uses. But as a general purpose web application data storage system, they are not always the best tool for the job. There are ... http://yannramin.com/2008/07/11/a-python-api-for-document-databases/