Creosote archive for Thu 11 of Aug, 2005

"Gazpacho is a fresh new GUI builder for the GTK+ toolkit designed to be ultra easy to use"

Open source scripting on OS X including for software such as php, ruby, perl, and python. Includes shell scripting.

Literate data editor

Python-based application server and templating language

One one python process with this name

This will take some digesting to grok... "If the Java Content Repository (JCR) API expert group's vision bears out, in five or ten years' time we will all program to repositories, not databases, according to David Nuescheler, CTO of Day Software [4], and JSR 170 spec lead. Repositories are an outgrowth of many years of data management research, and are best understood as fancy object stores especially suited to today's applications."

What is this supposed to mean? That is really condescending. ... [10 words]

Changeset 467 contains template tags for renderingTextile (using PyTextile), Markdown (using python-markdown), and ReStructured Text (using docutils). You can find usage examples and some basic tests in markup.py. You need to make sure that you have the correct modules installed to do the heavy lifting, but the tags are extremely easy to use: {{ textile_content|textile }} {{ markdown_content|markdown }} {{ rest_content|restructuredtext }}

AMK confirms that PyCon 2006 will be held in Dallas on Feb 23-26. I’m sad to see it leave DC, but it sounds like they’re going to get an amazing bang for the buck thanks to the hard work by the D/FW PUG. With the community agog over Django and my continuing interest in Python for Series 60, I’m going to do my best to make it there.

PyCon 2006 will be held in Dallas, Texas, from February 23-26 2006. See the PyCon 2006 wiki page for links to the hotel web site and information about the local area. (As you'd expect for a wiki, feel free to...

On plope.com, Chris highlights a posting by a Boston.com developer. Their ZODB regularly gets of 30 Gb. Anybody else out there have comparable numbers they can talk about in public?

Sure, 2 months is a bit of a long time to wait for a half-hearted recap. I'll likely leave out 90% of what I should talk about, but at least I can cross a to-do off my list. EuroPython started with severe pain. Tres and I met in London to spend the night and catch an early flight, to make sure we got rest before the sprint.

While I didn't get to see Paul Graham's talk at OSCON, I read his essay afterwards. He talks at length about the current model of how businesses are organized, and what open source and blogging might teach us about future approaches. I've given quite a number of speeches in the past few years on open source business models. Recently I've tried to narrow in on how you tell the difference between a business that is an "open source" company vs.

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Conferences and the attendant activity provide lots of fodder for "user created content". When I first started blogging, I used to try to blog something about every session that I went to. Blogging a conference in the level of detail that is truly useful is a daunting task, and I lacked the energy to keep up and do a really good job.

Leo, the neat-o Python based outlining program, got me a nice compliment from my manager this morning. I started building an outline for some documentation I had to write. I went to start writing it up in M$ Word, and decided to spend an hour or so surveying the Leo-landscape to see if [...]

My son and I did some more work on our Madlibs program. New features include random ordering of questions, and reusable words. Along the way, we discussed dictionaries, member variables, encapsulation, and polymorphism. Read all about it in the ongoing saga of Programming Madlibs.

I'm back! [and an hour later, my Geforce 6800 gave up, thanks to a failing GPU fan. wonderful.]

Russell started the company that I worked for until June this year. They will be missed by many; he was a nice guy as well as a great engineer, and she supported him through it all. Deaths shock colleagues around world (Christchurch Press). Plane victim's company produced system that impressed Bill Gates (NZ Herald). In Memory of Two Wonderful People (Jonathan Mosen, Product Manager at Humanware). Tribute from RNZFB (Royal NZ Foundation of the Blind). Rest in peace, Russell and Marian. Comment

I released Amara 1.0 today. It's been properly cooked for a while, but life always has its small interruptions. The big change in 1.0 is that I now offer it in a couple of package options. For those who just need some XML processing, and don't really care about RDF, all you need is Python and Amara-1.0-allinone (grab it from the FTP site).

Check out the art of this guy Jonas. ... [8 words]

I set up a Python module Planet Planet for aggregation of Macintosh Developer's Blogs. Codename: Planet MacDev. The installation was fairly easy. Basically, I run a crontab every couple minutes or so on RedHat Linux.

A Rocket To Nowhere (via) helps me make much better sense out of our absurd Space Shuttle Program. Clearly this primitive space plane must have been a sacred artifact, used in religious rituals to deliver sacrifice to a sky god. Then he goes on to a more rational explanation of why the Shuttle Program (and space station) look like they do, much of it rooted in the Cold War. Now that those goals are irrelevant, its purpose becomes circular: In the thirty years since the last Moon flight, we have succeeded in creating a perfectly self-contained manned space program, in which the Shuttle goes up to save the Space Station (undermanned, incomplete, breaking down, filled with garbage, and dropping at a hundred meters per day), and the Space Station offers the Shuttle a mission and a destination. The Columbia accident has added a beautiful finishing symmetry - the Shuttle is now required to fly to the ISS, which will serve as an inspection station for the fragile thermal tiles, and a lifeboat in case something goes seriously wrong. This closed cycle is so perfect that the last NASA administrator even cancelled the only mission in which there was a compelling need for a manned space flight - the Hubble telescope repair and upgrade - on the grounds that it would be too dangerous to fly the Shuttle away from the ISS, thereby detaching the program from its last connection to reason and leaving it free to float off into its current absurdist theater of backflips, gap fillers, Canadarms and heroic expeditions to the bottom of the spacecraft. There is no satisfactory answer for why all this commotion must take place in orbit.

"... saltshaker is a Python script for shaking things... in the open source Blender 3d system. A lot of... information/comments are included for budding... Blender Python script writers. ..."

"Scapy is a powerful interactive packet... manipulation tool, packet generator, network... scanner, network discovery tool, and packet... sniffer. It provides classes to interactively... create packets or sets of packets, manipulate... them, send them over the wire, sniff other packets... from the wire, match answers and replies, and... more. Interaction is provided by the Python... interpreter, so Python programming structures can be used (such as variables, loops, and functions). Report module..."

"PenguinTV is a Python-based RSS reader... specifically designed for downloading and viewing... podcasts and video blog entries."

"Dabo is a three-tier, cross-platform database... application development framework, written in... Python with the wxPython GUI toolkit. The controls... in Dabo's UI are easily bound to data by setting... two properties. The business object is designed to... afford you complete control over the validation... and handling of your data. The cursor classes are... abstracted from their backend implementations,... allowing for easy support of nearly any backend... database. Dabo's design and approach..."

"Yet another ordered dict . ..."

"Django appears 47 times on Daily Python-URL."

"Zope.org Product Updates"

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"I'm helping Robert on the talk selection for the Plone Conference in Vienna this year. Looking through the submissions reminded me that this is going to be an exceptional conference this year."

"I was invited to a workshop on open source foundations, started by Allison Randal from the Perl Foundation. The workshop was held the 2 days before OSCON in Portland. David Ascher invited me to learn/share some of the experiences from the Plone Foundation perspective."

I've been meaning to post this here for a while... The Chicago Python Users Group has started a book club. But everyone is invited; we plan to mostly do this on a mailing list, so you need not be in Chicago. This is a chance to do something a little more computer-sciency, purely to expand your mind. Our first book is Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming. What particularly appealed to me about this book is that it's in Oz, which (alongside Erlang) is known for its strong support for concurrent programming.

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