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Archive for the “Python” category

Sphinx 0.5 released (technical)

by Christian Scholz on November 24, 2008

Interesting for Python programmers: Sphinx, the documentation tool we all love, has been released in version 0.5. Development has moved now to mercurial and is hosted at http://www.bitbucket.org/birkenfeld/sphinx. Biggest change is probably the i18n support, there are now 10 supported (…)

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Interview with Benji York from Zope Corporation (Video)

by Christian Scholz on October 20, 2008

It’s now a month ago but I still have this video interview with Benji York from Zope Corporation sitting here on my HD so why not publish it. So here it is: Interview with Benjo York / Zope Corporation from (…)

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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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DZUG Conference 2008: Short excerpt from the Zope Panel Keynote (technical)

by Christian Scholz on September 11, 2008

Andreas Jung, Benji York, Tres Seavers and Martijn Faassen held the second keynote in the form of a panel asking questions from the community. Here is a little excerpt where Benji talks about persistent ZODB caches and Martijn about the (…)

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DZUG Conference 2008: My Lightning Talk about the repoze.who OpenID Plugin (technical)

by Christian Scholz on September 11, 2008

Here are the slides of my lightning talk I gave at the DZUG Conference 2008 in Saarbrücken, Germany. It’s about the OpenID plugin for repoze.who which is now functional but not yet released as tests and documentation is missing. OpenID (…)

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DZUG Conference: Sebastian Wehrmann about Efficient Ad-Hoc-Requests to the ZODB

by Christian Scholz on September 10, 2008

Sebastian Wehrmann of gocept was talking about how to do efficient ad-hoc queries to the ZODB which is his master thesis. His first idea about the ZODB was: Hey, that’s easy, I derive from Persistant and create an object graph (…)

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DZUG Conference: Christian Theune about ZEORaid (technical)

by Christian Scholz on September 10, 2008

Christian Theune is co-founder of gocept, one of the biggest Zope consulting companies in the german speaking area. Today he talks about ZEORaid, a reliable storage layer for the ZODB. The ZODB is a native object database for Python object (…)

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DZUG conference: Andreas Jung about configuration controlled buildouts (technical)

by Christian Scholz on September 10, 2008

Andreas Jung was one of the first speakers at the DZUG Tagung 2008 talking about buildout and some advanced topics. I assume here that everybody know what buildout is so I skip the introductionary explanations. Points he is making is: (…)

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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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