I recently decided to give iTerm a try, so I needed a way to launch shells and other things requiring a terminal the same way I launched them inside rxvt-unicode: using Quicksilver.

I suppose I could use AppleScript to do this, but…

1. I don’t really like its syntax;
2. I’m currently addicted to python;

So I made qslaunch, a very small python package to help do the job, and this little post to tell how to use it :)

In this post, I’m assuming some knowledge of python, regular expressions and how to use a shell.

I won’t detail things too much either as I think the code speaks by itself.

First, Wordpress, then, for a year, ExpressionEngine. And now, since yesterday, this website runs under django!

Well, it actually runs on much more than django:

• django for the basic web stuff, URL handling, admin interfaces and such;
• the awesome jinja 2 template engine;
• the clean and flexible reStructured Text markup language for my own posts;
• the fabulous pygments syntax highlighter;
• for the comment markup, markdown;
• the search system is, as always, the overly-fast Sphinx full-text search engine;
• redis for the caching;
• django modules like mptt, tagging and imagekit;
• and so much more…

Just like the previous version, based on EE, used much more than EE. For example, its search system was also Sphinx-based. (And the humanized markup language I used was called “HTML” – I don’t really like Markdown nor textile, and reST is only in python :)

Why the move? Well… such a simple question deserves a simple answer: I personally have much more fun pythonning than PHP-ing. Maybe because I did so much PHP, and python is still new to me. Or maybe my mind works more like python :P

Anyway, my first complaint: using django’s native comment system certainly attracts spam! So I suppose I’ll have to do something about that, yeah! More pythonning to do! >:)