Archive for the “Python” category
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 (…)
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 (…)
EuroPython 2008: Dr. Strangelove or how I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Zope 3 by Charlie Clark
by Christian Scholz on July 8, 2008
Charlie Clark was talking about his Zope3 experiences and why it is a great framework to work with and here is my try on a summary: He started with a brief history of Zope2, how it started, how the CMF (…)
A first shot at refactoring the OGP login in Python (pyogp) (technical)
by Christian Scholz on June 24, 2008
Last weekend and yesterday I spent some time to refactor some code for the Python OGP library and tried to come up with a good structure for it. Now maybe I should explain first what I am talking about. The (…)
Hans Rosling will be speaking at EuroPython 2008
by Christian Scholz on June 13, 2008
Here is something I am really looking forward to: Hans Rosling, professor of International Health at Karolinska Institutet and co-founder of Gapminder Foundation, will be holding one of the two keynotes at the annual EuroPython conference this year! If you (…)
Script Time: convert a Second Life chatlog to Confluence Wiki Markup with Python (Technical)
by Christian Scholz on May 18, 2008
Today we had yet another meetup of the DataPortability Group in Second Life and we mainly discussed why discussing ownership brings us nowhere. Instead Steve Greenberg, who joined us talks about his view on rules on usage and licenses instead (…)
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 (…)
Announcing pydataportability 0.1 (technical)
by Christian Scholz on April 21, 2008
The last few days I have been working on creating the basic parts of a DataPortability library for Python. My goal is to create a library which supports the standards we propose in the DataPortability Project to help leveraging Python (…)
Google is an OpenID provider now (and Google’s AppEngine)
by Christian Scholz on April 9, 2008
So another big company now supports OpenID and this time it’s Google. Bad news is though that they are only a provider but not a consumer. When all those sites only are providers then of course the whole idea is (…)
My Sorrento Plone Sprint Report
by Christian Scholz on March 31, 2008
I am sitting at the Naples airport right now after having a great week in Sorrento, Italy at the Sorrento Sprint. There have been a lot of cool people there and lots of interesting discussions (one of these is recorded (…)