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Tuesday, 28th April 2009

A new leaf. George Oates is now heading up the Open Library project at the Internet Archive. Sounds like a perfect match.

# 12:55 am / george-oates, internet-archive, openlibrary

python-sqlparse (via) Python library for re-identing SQL statements. This could make debugging Django’s generated SQL a whole lot easier. You can try the library out using an App Engine hosted application (complete with an API).

# 8:25 pm / appengine, django, python, sql, sqlparse

Ubuntu brings advanced Screen features to the masses. Ubuntu 9.04’s screen-profiles package adds a taskbar to screen and emulates the gnome panel. You can even add a widget showing the cost of your current EC2 session.

# 9:52 pm / ec2, linux, screen, ubuntu