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This code snippet will allow you to look for objects of a certain type in memory. This is very useful for plugins:

"""
    This looks through all the objects in memory, to find ones
    of the designated type.
"""
 
import gc
 
class Animal(object):
    def make_noise(self):
        print "snort"
 
animal = Animal()
 
for obj in gc.get_objects():
    if type(obj) == Animal:
        obj.make_noise()

During my job hunting, I was going over my resume and portfolio. I noticed that my project Rester is just about a year old. It is also getting to a point, where is is almost useful to other people.

If you are interested: Rester is a fast RESTful web server and framework written in D. It should be as easy to use as Ruby on Rails, but provide good performance by default, and be easy to deploy.

I made a brief screencast, with an introduction and an example that uses server push.

rester_1.ogv (27.7 Megabytes):

You can also view the video in the legacy flash format at Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBfdn5RCrlw

Feel free to try it out yourself, and leave comments.

I can’t believe I did not know about this until now. You can search the Ubuntu PPAs on Launchpad:

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ppas

I found all kinds of cool packages. Some for new application, and some for updated versions. My favorites so far are: ldc, pcsx2, vlc, arora, gnome-colors, shrip, eclipse, and pitivi.