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fbFund Gives Financial Awards To Facebook Apps

As someone who’s not too fond of Facebook applications, I must say that this development reminds me of Monty Python’s “Upper Class Twit of the Year” sketch.  But it’s likely that, by paying people to develop apps, the newly founded fbFund is trying to undo such associations.

Removing Spam From the Net

Neither Hormel, the maker of Spam, nor Monty Python's Spamalot would appreciate the sentiment in the title.

Yahoo! to Serve UP BBC Videos

As part of an agreement with ABC News, Yahoo is beginning to offer BBC News video on its site. Yahoo! users will now have access to approximately 30 video clips of BBC News video each day, including a large assortment of videos pertaining to most major news and entertainment genres.

Python Coils Around 2.5 Release

The latest major version of the Python programming language recently arrived online from the Python Software Foundation.

Python Steps Up In Django And TurboGears

IBM presented a two-part series on developing applications with Python, using Django as the framework in one example and TurboGears in another.

Python Developer Center on Yahoo!

Thanks to Simon Willison, we now have a Python Developer Center on the Yahoo! Developer Network.

Should I Learn Python or Ruby Next?

I've been programming (when I do program) mainly in Perl for the last 10 years or so. But I've been itching to learn a new language for a while now, and the two near the top of the list are Ruby and Python.

Swaying A Coder Away From Python

One programmer blogged about the powerful attraction he is feeling to C# programming, and departing from six years of tinkering with Python.

Google Summer of Code Search for Python...

Google is looking for students from undergrad through the Ph.D levels to work on new open source code and to act as project mentors.

Python and Ruby: the Newer Alternatives

Thanks to the nature of open source, almost anyone can write a programming language and get a significant number of people to use it: and plenty of people have.