What’s your new year’s resolution? One of mine is to be more active in helping and mentoring new Pythonistas, which is why I wrote the twitter bot behind @PythonQuestions. Inspired by the @MongoQuestion twitter bot, @PythonQuestions tweets new Stack Overflow questions tagged “Python”.

I presented Professor, my MongoDB profile viewer and analyzer, this past Tuesday at the New York MongoDB User Group. Professor aims to use the new features in the MongoDB 2.0 profiler to make profile information intelligible and actionable. It’s open-source (BSD-licensed) and written in Python and Flask.

I’ve wanted to start writing a blog for the past few months. By which I mean, writing blog posts. But why focus on writing great content when you can write great software instead?

Allow me to introduce Plog, the software running late.am. Read on to see how Flask, Mongoengine, and MongoDB can work together to create something beautiful.