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Archive for the “Development” category

Amazon präsentiert Content Delivery Network “CloudFront”

by Christian Scholz on November 19, 2008

Technorati-Tags: cloudfront,amazon,aws,contentdelivery,cds,cdn,webservices,startups Amazon presents their new Web-Service, a Content Delivery Service called "CloudFront". Find all about it here. Heute gab es einen neuen Newsletter in dem Amazon seinen neuesten Web-Service vorstellte, nämlich ein Content Delivery System namens CloudFront. Damit kann (…)

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Introducting repoze.bfg.restrequest (technical)

by Christian Scholz on October 20, 2008

Should you be a Python developer, using repoze.bfg as web framework and need some way to distinguish between GET, POST, PUT and DELETE requests for a view you might want to have a look at repoze.bfg.restrequests. What it gives you (…)

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Using ToscaWidgets with repoze.bfg and Storm

by Christian Scholz on September 2, 2008

Recently I tried to use Storm and ToscaWidgets with repoze.bfg to create a simple usermanagement application. Here is a little rundown of what I did. First I installed repoze.bfg inside a virtualenv: mkdir users cd users virtualenv –no-site-packages . source (…)

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A first look at repoze.bfg

by Christian Scholz on August 25, 2008

If you are a Zope developer you maybe have heard about repoze.bfg. Recently I was checking it out to see what one can do with it and if it’s useful for me. What is repoze.bfg In short repoze.bfg is an (…)

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Announcement: bliptv.reader for easy access to blip.tv hosted videos from Python

by Christian Scholz on July 27, 2008

Motivation Right now I am in the process of converting all of the EuroPython conference footage for streaming on the web in order to publish it on COM.lounge TV and the EuroPython blog. This means not only some work in (…)

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Using subversion 1.5 with setuptools in Python (technical)

by Christian Scholz on July 19, 2008

Usually I am using buildout for doing all my Python development work which is great as it gives you a flexible sandbox for developing. One problem might strike you though if you upgrade your subversion installation to 1.5 as I (…)

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Python and the Open Grid Protocol – status of the pyogp project (technical)

by Christian Scholz on July 15, 2008

As you might have heard in the press, many people are quite active in making virtual worlds interoperability possible. So am I. Together with Linden Lab and other interested participants we started the pyogp project a little while ago and (…)

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Ruby with Security Holes! (technical)

by Christian Scholz on June 23, 2008

Just in case you are using Ruby for whatever purpose (esp. in web applications) you might want to be aware of the recently discovered security holes. They can lead to Denial of Service Attacks or execution of arbitrary code. And (…)

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Setting up a framework for a Python implementation of the Open Grid Protocol (technical)

by Christian Scholz on May 18, 2008

As you might know, the Open Grid Protocol which is worked on by the Architecture Working Group (which consists of people from Linden Lab and the Second Life community) is for virtual worlds what DataPortability is for Social Networks these (…)

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XRDS and it’s Service Types (technical)

by Christian Scholz on May 4, 2008

Tonight we had some quite interesting discussions going on in both the Second Life DataPortability meetup as well in the Skype chat of the Technical Action Group of the DataPortability project. Gabe Wachob joined us who is a member of (…)

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