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Peewee, a lightweight Python ORM - Original Post
For the past month or so I've been working on writing my own ORM in Python. The project grew out of a need for a lightweight persistence layer for use in Flask web apps. As I've grown so familiar with the Django ORM over the past year, many of the ideas in Peewee are analagous to the concepts in Django. My goal from the beginning has been to keep the implementation simple without sacrificing functionality, and to ultimately create something hackable that others might be able to read and contribute to.
Even more Canvas fun - Tetris in JavaScript
Tetris in JavaScript using the Canvas element, 'nuff said!
More fun with Canvas - a JavaScript Starfield!
The canvas element is awesome. JavaScript is fast enough that you can run some pretty computationally intensive stuff (I've seen 3D games, a NES emulator, and much more all done with JS!). This script shouldn't push your CPU to the limit, but it does show how easy it is to create cool effects with just a small amount of code.
Nokia Snake with JavaScript + Canvas
Keeping with the theme of yesterday's post - "a stroll down memory lane" - I thought I'd re-create the Nokia Snake game (a distant relative of Nibbles) using JavaScript and the canvas element.
A Stroll Down Memory Lane: Scripting AOL
When I started working at my current job I was surprised to see that everyone used IRC as their primary means of communication - much more so than email or IM. I recently wrote a small irc bot library in python - it was a ton of fun and reminded me of some of the first programs I wrote that were bots and scripts for America Online.