Archive for the “English Posts” category
Introducing WebFinger and a python client
by Christian Scholz on October 12, 2009
One repeatedly upcoming problem is what identifier a normal user would use for identifying his or her own user account. One approach is apparently OpenID in which case it is a HTTP URL. For the one or other reason though (…)
New businesscards, finally
by Christian Scholz on October 12, 2009
It took a while but finally I created some new designs for my business cards. Not really all the same CI but who cares anyway ;-) Now I am just waiting for Moo to deliver.
My Open Platforms Panel Presentation from the Community & Marketing Summit Hamburg (Video)
by Christian Scholz on September 28, 2009
On September 17th I was invited to moderate a panel titled “Walled Gardens vs. Open Platform” at the Community & Marketing Summit in Hamburg. With me on the panel have been representatives from german social networks studivz and Xing. Here (…)
How open is Open Social anyway?
by Christian Scholz on September 25, 2009
Last week I was moderating a panel about open platforms at the Community Summit in Hamburg with member from german social networks studivz and Xing. One question discussed was of course Open Social as both networks either have an implementation (…)
New release of basketweaver and how to create your own package index for Python
by Christian Scholz on September 9, 2009
Once upon a time Chris McDonough was ranting about distribution_links and how they are considered harmful and out of that came a script which enabled you to easily create your own package index for your buildout to use. A little (…)
pydataportability.xrds v0.2 released
by Christian Scholz on September 8, 2009
It’s been a while since I worked on pydataportabilty but I am on track again. Today I released version 0.2 of the pydataportability.xrds package, a parser for XRDS-Simple documents. From the changelog: 0.2 (2009-09-08) ================ Documentation ————- * “CHANGES.txt“ and (…)
URL-shortener tr.im to be community-owned
by Christian Scholz on August 17, 2009
There has been lots of talk recently about the URL shortening service tr.im. First it was supposed to simply be shutdown until the end of the year, then – because of the overwhelming feedback – it was reactivated again and (…)
EuroPython 2009: Keynote by Cory Doctorow [video]
by Christian Scholz on July 13, 2009
Here it is, the video recording of Cory Doctorow‘s Keynote at this year’s EuroPython 2009. (two parts due to size limits I think, the last part also shows the first attempt on getting Guido van Rossum, the creator of Python (…)
EuroPython 2009: Web Testing with Windmill
by Christian Scholz on July 2, 2009
This talk was held by Mikeal Rogers from the Mozilla Foundation and all about web testing with the Windmill project. Problem in general with web testing is that you cannot unittest it, it’s always a functional test. In web testing (…)
EuroPython 2009: Agile Development
by Christian Scholz on July 2, 2009
Bea Düring was presenting how she helped OpenEnd to become an agile company. Before that they were activity oriented based on the development tasks at hand. They also had long iterations and only tested at the end (6 month iteration (…)
