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Here is another series of posts: now I’m going to write about setting up a Django production environment using nginx and Green Unicorn in a virtual environment. The subject in this first post is nginx, which is my favorite web server.

Solution for the dining philosophers problem using the Go programming language.

A little late, finally I introduce the third part of using Python frameworks in Google App Engine. I wrote before about web2py and Django, and now is the time of Flask, a Python microframework based on Werkzeug, Jinja2 and good intentions. Unlike Django and web2py, Flask is not a full stack framework, it has not a database abstraction layer or an object relational mapper, Flask is totally decoupled from model layer. It is really good, because we can use the power of SQLAlchemy (which is, IMHO, the best ever data abstraction framework =P) when we are working with relational databases, and when work with non-relational databases, we can use the native API.

Hooray, there is a bonus part in the series (after a looooooooooooong wait =P)! On the first blog post, about Django, I received a comment about the use of tipfy, a small Python web framework made specifically for Google App Engine. Like Flask, tipfy is not a full stack framework and we will not use a database abstraction layer, we will use just the Google App Engine Datastore API, but tipfy was designed for Google App Engine, so it is less laborious to work with tipfy on App Engine.

Use a exclusive Firefox profile for Selenium WebDriver.

Post showing how to configure a Java application server integrated with nginx and memcached.

Know Splinter, a Python framework for acceptance testing on web applications.

Learn how to test your jQuery plugins using Jasmine, a JavaScript BDD framework.

We are going to start tomorrow, on FISL, another splinter sprint. “From June 29 through July 2, 2011, fisl12 will be hosted at the PUC Events Center, in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.”. But don’t worry about the location: anyone in anywhere can join us in this sprint. There is an entry in splinter wiki about this sprint, and I’m just replicating the information here…

Recently I found landslide, which is a Python tool for creating HTML 5 slide presentations.It’s based in a famous slide presentation. It’s a simple script that generates HTML from a source file, which can be formatted using reStructuredText, Textile or Markdown.