Wichert Akkerman: Migration Frameworks
There is a growing number of migration toolkits for Python: Alembic, sqlalchemy-migrate, GenericSetup, zope.generations, south, etc. All of these focus on migrating a specific type of database, and...
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Mikko Ohtamaa: Sublime Text 2 tips for Python and web developers
Sublime Text 2 is a very powerful text editor which has gained popularity recently – for good reasons. It is commercial (59 USD). Plenty of power comes from the fact that Sublime has a plug-in...
View ArticleReinout van Rees: I am doing HTTP wrong - Armin Ronacher
According to Armin Ronacher most (Python) web frameworks use a request/response style of handling HTTP. At his company, they're treating HTTP a litle bit different. (So the talk is first about some...
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Reinout van Rees: Distributed job scheduling - Niels Hageman
Sisyphus, which they made at paylogic, is a semi-distributed job scheduling system. Originally they used cronjobs. It is very robust and reliable. But it has limitations: The configuration is strictly...
View ArticleMaurits van Rees: PyGrunn
See the PyGrunn website for more info about this one-day Python conference in Groningen, The Netherlands. I will be blogging today about this conference. You may want to check blogs for this day by my...
View ArticleReinout van Rees: Development laptop setup: explicit automation
I also gave a talk at http://pygrunn.nl on development laptop setup: explicit automation. I don't have a summary of my own talk, but I have two other things for you: The basic idea is the same as a...
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Reinout van Rees: AOP in Python API design - Douwe van der Meij
AOP is Aspect Oriented Programming. It is not often used in Python, you see it more often in for instance Java. His program does calculations on biogas installations. And the calculation needs to be...
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Reinout van Rees: Large number of markers on google maps - Oleg Pidsadnyi
He had to show lots of markers on a google map, which often led to bad performance. And he wanted real-time updates. And... the client needs to be responsive! A marker is a DOM element, but also a...
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Alex Clark: Adam Yauch has passed
And why it matters to tech people, like me (I hope my tech colleagues will indulge my thoughts on the recent passing of Beastie Boy Adam Yauch.) TL;DR: I <3 the Beastie Boys and will miss Adam...
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Reinout van Rees: Space invaders with SQLAlchemy - Michael Bayer
His talk is titled "space invaders, relational modeling and domain models, a mashup" instead of just the plain sqlalchemy that I expected :-) Space invaders He started his computer career with a...
View ArticleJean-Michel Francois: A set of addons for multilingual sites
I have just released a set of addons for the CMS Plone, done in collaboration with CIRB: collective.linguaanalytics collective.linguadomains collective.linguasitemap collective.linguaanalytics This...
View ArticleMartin Aspeli: To parents of twins
A brief guide My wife and I became parents of identical twin girls just over five months ago. We did not have IVF or another form of assisted reproduction, and twins do not run in either of our...
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Mikko Ohtamaa: Never use hard tabs
As there seems to be some confusion when hard tab characters (ASCII code 9) are appropriate in source code files here is a rule: 1) Never use hard tabs 1. 1) Unless your source code is hard tab...
View ArticlePlone Conference 2012: The talks submission for the Plone Conf 2012 is now open!
The talks submission is now open. With just 20 weeks until the conference starts, the opportunity to submit a proposal for your talk has arrived. The deadline for submission is August 15th. Information...
View ArticlePlone.org: The talks submission for the Plone Conf 2012 is now open!
The talks submission is now open. With just 20 weeks until the conference starts, the opportunity to submit a proposal for your talk has arrived. The deadline for submission is August 15th....
View ArticleDomen Kožar: Products.TinyMCE 1.3 status update
Products.TinyMCE 1.3 is not ready to be released, but we are advancing: PLIP was submitted by Tom Gross (kudos!) to include Products.TinyMCE 1.3 into Plone 4.3 release. Upcoming Friday (18th of May),...
View ArticleChris McDonough: Why I Like ZODB
Why I like ZODB better than other persistence systems for writing real-world web applications.
View ArticlePlone Conference 2012: 17 days left for your Early bird tickets
The early bird registration for Plone Conference 2012 ends on the June 1st... or even sooner if we pass the 200 Early bird limit. June 1st is just 17 days away from now, so act now, and buy your ticket...
View ArticlePlone Conference 2012: Two training sessions available
Two training sessions are available from this point. Our good friends Paul Roeland and Fred van Dijk will both give a one (1) day training. Both will do the same training twice, so you can join them...
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