Django Hosting Roundup

Over the last month and a half Ken Cochrane has been evaluating the different cloud webhosts for Django apps. In this summary post, Cochrane provides a useful table that compares features and prices of all cloud hosts as well as App Engine and Web Faction. Below are links to the individual host reviews.

• ep.io
• gondor
• App Hosted
• Django Zoom

Podcasts for Programmers, Developers and Web Designers

James Fuller has assembled a list of 8 podcasts that are aimed at web developers. The podcasts range from news discussions to entrepreneur interviews. In addition to the podcasts on the page I recommend TechZing. It’s a weekly podcast hosted by two freelance programmers who are both working part time on their own start ups. The show alternates between an interview with a web entrepreneur or programmer and a discussion about their startups and news.

Writing Titanium Desktop applications with Python

php-color

Harold Asbridge has written a class for PHP that allows easy manipulation and conversion of colors. The source is hosted on github.

$color1 = new Color(0xFFFFFF);

$color2 = new Color(0x888888);

$distance = $color1->getDistanceRgbFrom($color2);