Orderly JSON

From Simon Willison:

Orderly JSON. Essentially the JSON equivalent of RelaxNG’s compact syntax—a pleasant mini-language for describing JSON objects which compiles to the more verbose JSONSchema format.

Deployment is just a part of dev/ops cooperation, not the whole thing

Deployment is just a part of dev/ops cooperation, not the whole thing

More details from John Allspaw (flickr ops manager) on how toget dev + ops working together. All nice stuff like better monitoring, allowing developers to easily add monitoring, feature flags and more.

check it out.

New job positions in Europe for Amazon Web Services

New job positions in Europe for Amazon Web Services
Interesting jobs @AWS including Solutions Architect and Tech Evangelist.

JS bindings for AMQP

kamaloka-js-0.1.0 AMQP bindings released Makes client side programing easy - seems to also support QMF

Getting started testing in Django

Lazy Pythonista: Getting Started with Testing in Django : Alex Gaynor provides a good introduction to the simplest (and most
immediately useful) way to test your Django apps - simple view testing.

Information systems from an operational perspective

Some slides that I presented at EGEE'09 on future ideas for information systems from an operational perspective.

Grid Information systems from an Operations Perspective

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Django slides at GD White Areas

I gave the following slides today on Django at the White Areas lectures.  They give a high level introduction to Django and also show some useful tools for python/Django development.

Introduction to Django

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