Cloud Foundry lacks support for running arbitrary commands. Being able to run arbitrary commands is essential when processing data outside of the web application request-response cycle. "run" is essential to perform tasks like Django's admin user creation (and changing its password) or populating a database from a Twitter stream.
With the recent official release of the Python agent for New Relic (our
application monitoring partner) we're featuring this guest post by Graham Dumpleton. I had the pleasure of working with Graham as we tested the Python agent and the New Relic service with Stackato in recent weeks. --TT
The ActivePython AMI comes with a demonstration Django app that runs with the MySQL database engine by default. Since a lot of people prefer PostgreSQL, we thought we'd demonstrate how to install the software and change the configuration.
Along with the project improvements in Komodo 6.1 there's a big bonus for Django developers. We did a lot of work in this release to improve the editing experience for Django users.
As per Eric's blog post of a few weeks ago, we've added a number of features that some of our Komodo 5 users couldn't do without. Most importantly, the ability to:
have multiple projects open simultaneously,
add arbitrary links to files and folders, and
organize these items into groups (previously called "virtual folders").
Python is constantly evolving, and ActiveState is pleased to announce the availablity of ActivePython builds for Python 3.1.2 as part of our ongoing effort to make the latest releases of the Python language available to our customers.
ActiveState is pleased to sponsor this year's Django Dash 2010, a 48-hour competition for Django enthusiasts to "flex and show off their coding skills".
Registration: August 1 - 7
Competition: August 14 - 15
Winners Announced: August 31
One of my favorite local conferences is coming up this weekend, namely LinuxFest NorthWest in Bellingham, Washington. The range of sessions has always been somewhat unpredictable, but this year features a healthy number of talks dedicated to developing web applications with the main open source frameworks. I figure it will be a good chance for me to get up to speed on any new developments I missed out on, as well as meeting people who are working in the area locally.
Python is constantly evolving, and ActiveState is pleased to announce the availablity of ActivePython builds for Python 3.1.2 as part of our ongoing effort to make the latest releases of the Python language available to our customers. 
ActiveState is pleased to sponsor this year's 
