Google docs wouldn't let me share the presentation publicly with people outside our company's domain and it gave me an error when I tried to download it as a Powerpoint file or PDF so I was forced to recreate my presentation locally. Anyway, I placed the slides to my talk at PyCon Asia online please check it out on slideshare. Key Value Storage Systems ... and Beyond ... with Python View mo[...]

I came across this website called Zoho which has a lot of interesting web apps like Google's web apps. Google has Google docs, spreadsheets, and presentations. Zoho has docs, spreadsheets, and presentations. Google has Google notebook. Zoho has a notebook. Google has gmail. Zoho has Zoho mail. Google has... well you get the idea. All that stuff is well and good but the thing that caught my e[...]

There is currently a bug in the current stable release of MDB2 (2.4.1) that breaks transaction support with MySQL databases. It seems to occur anytime the server cababilities are checked twice (This basically means that it occurs when creating multiple connections to the database). After running into this bug I took a dive into the code for MDB2 and found that was caused by the use of a stat[...]