Django Pre-flight is meant to help with creation of simple pages on which one can quickly gauge health of the system and its external dependencies. It's a great help for testers before actually delving into the system to be sure that all is configured correctly and any found problems are due to bugs in the code itself and not because of misconfiguration.

This article shows you how to write a relatively simple script to extract text paragraphs from large chunks of HTML code, without knowing its structure or the tags used. It works on news articles and blogs pages with worthwhile text content, among others…

Pyramid is a small, fast, down-to-earth Python web application development framework. It is developed as part of the Pylons Project. It is licensed under a BSD-like license.

polib is a library to manipulate, create, modify gettext files (pot, po and mo files). You can load existing files, iterate through it's entries, add, modify entries, comments or metadata, etc... or create new po files from scratch.

polib is pretty stable now and is used by many opensource projects.

Nimrod is a new statically typed, imperative programming language, that supports procedural, object oriented, functional and generic programming styles while remaining simple and efficient. A special feature that Nimrod inherited from Lisp is that Nimrod's abstract syntax tree (AST) is part of the specification - this allows a powerful macro system which allows domain specific languages. Nimrod is a compiled, garbage-collected systems programming language which has an excellent productivity/performance ratio. Nimrod's design focuses on the 3E: efficiency, expressiveness, elegance (in the order of priority).

Smisk is a simple, high-performance and scalable web service framework written in C, but controlled by Python. Smisk is currently used in production by Spotify and Livebloggen.

Pyramid is a small, fast, down-to-earth Python web application development framework. It is developed as part of the Pylons Project. It is licensed under a BSD-like license.

pyquery allows you to make jquery queries on xml documents. The API is as much as possible the similar to jquery. pyquery uses lxml for fast xml and html manipulation.

JetBrains PyCharm — Python IDE with complete set of tools for productive development with Python programming language.In addition, the IDE provides high-class capabilities for professional Web development with Django framework.

This is a follow up post to How Hacker News ranking algorithm works. This time around I will examine how Reddit's default story and comment rankings work. Reddit's algorithms are fairly simple to understand and to implement and in this post I'll dig deeper into them.

The first part of this post will focus on story ranking, i.e. how are Reddit stories ranked? The second part of this post will focus on comment ranking, which does not use the same ranking as stories (unlike Hacker News), Reddit's comment ranking algorithm is quite interesting and the idea guy behind it is Randall Munroe (the author of xkcd).