Archive for the “Python” category
Malthe about “Otto” (Plone Conference 2009 Open Space Session)
by Christian Scholz on October 30, 2009
Malthe Borch organized a session about “Otto”, his and Jeroen’s approach to make Python Web Framework programming fun again mainly be reinventing the wheel. But give it a listen yourself: (Download MP3) (It started by Malthe explaining that repoze.bfg was (…)
Georg Greve’s Keynote at the Plone Conference 2009
by Christian Scholz on October 30, 2009
Georg Greve from the Free Software Foundation Europe was talking about decision making. He started explaining how he moved from being a software developer to being a politician. He takes the relicensing policy as an example and wonders how we (…)
Content Types with Dexterity (Plone Conference 2009)
by Christian Scholz on October 29, 2009
David Glick is introducing Dexterity to us, the new way of doing content types in Plone. It is aimed at non-developers and developers. What is a content type? A way to categorize the items in your site It has a (…)
Lightning Talk: Godefroid Chapelle about buildout
by Christian Scholz on October 28, 2009
What’s new in the latest release of zc.buildout? Extension build by gocept, you can use buildout really offline. It tells you if you cannot download something in offline mode but still uses download-caches etc. if you configure it. “annotate” command (…)
unloading plone – approaching scalability (Plone conference 2009)
by Christian Scholz on October 28, 2009
Elizabeth Leddy is talking about scalability issues with Plone and how to approach scalability: Tools, Tips and techniques for making Plone scale. This talk is not about just installing something like CacheFu, it’s more about specialized situations where you cannot (…)
Lessons learned from other frameworks (Plone Conference 2009)
by Christian Scholz on October 28, 2009
Wichert Akkerman was talking about lessons he learned from other frameworks. He once was looking at other frameworks and thistalk is about a view for developers. First of all: Plone is an application, not a framework but still we build (…)
KARL: knowledge management & collaboration for NGOs (Plone Conference 2009)
by Christian Scholz on October 28, 2009
Tom Moroz, Chris Rossi and Calvin Hendryx-Parker have been talking about KARL. Tom Moroz of the Open Society Institute (OSI) starts on a bit of background on what KARL is. OSI has 7 ‘core’ offices in US and Europe. It (…)
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 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 (…)
