For those who haven’t heard ofDjango, it is a popular web framework written in Python. It allows one to create complex web applications with relatively small amounts of code. The web framework simplifies development by offering a powerful database ORM, an autogenerated administration interface, and a powerful template language.The latest 1.4 release features a large number of changes, that affect most aspects of Django’s functionality. Some of the major new features in Django 1.4 include: A new improved way of handling date and time that respects timezones Big additions to the ORM SELECT_FOR_UPDATE support prefetching related objects bulk creation of objects A completely new form wizard that simplifies splitting forms in multiple pages....

The history of HTML5 video is a convoluted one; and while it was championed as the “Flash-killer” it’s hard to see how web video hasn’t failed to achieve what it was supposed to. For the open web to be successful each component of it has to be open, such that anyone adhering to the open web standards can do so for free and in an open manner.The video format that the web should have embraced should likewise have had all the qualities of the other web standards; that anyone can view, edit and create content in it. Anyone can write software to view, edit or create such content, and they can do all this without needing to pay any royalties. This is true of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JPEG, GIF, PNG, SVG, and the handful of other formats that make up the web....

Your hard drive is quite likely to be one of the slowest components of you computer. Compared to how fast data is transferred between other components of your computer, the hard drive moves at a crawling pace.Often this does not cut it when you have to do hard-drive intensive operations. Your RAM is literally thousands of times faster than your hard drive. So unless you need tons of storage space, you can gain huge boosts in speed simply by using your RAM instead of your hard disk.Of course there is often no option to use the RAM in lieu of your hard drive. This is where RAMDisk comes in. It is a small application that provides you a virtual disk drive, which instead of storing data to the hard drive stores that data to the RAM. This drive will then show up as a normal partition on your...