http://palladion.com/blog daily 1 2007-10-20T13:26:39Z http://palladion.com/home/tseaver/obzervationz/2008/teague-django_cheeseshop_pony-20080916 A well-written open letter to the Django development community on the practices which make a setuptools-based development process go more smoothly than the historical experience which soured that community on the idea. tseaver 2008-09-16T14:47:38Z http://palladion.com/home/tseaver/obzervationz/2008/ramm-django_learning_from_zope-20080916 A really nicely-done presentation analyzing the costs and tradeoffs of the "monolithic" development culture of Zope2, and recommendations for avoiding the pitfalls. tseaver 2008-09-16T14:44:55Z http://palladion.com/home/tseaver/obzervationz/2008/post_dzug2008_sprint_report-20080914 Notes on work done and proposed during the sprint, 12 - 14 September 2008. tseaver 2008-09-14T12:33:47Z http://palladion.com/home/tseaver/obzervationz/2008/ploneout_console_script-20080911 In a straight 'setupttools'-based application, adding one or more console scripts is straightforward: you just declare them in the 'setup.py', and set setuptools build them for you. However, when using 'zc.buildout' for Plone 3.0.x or 3.1.x, you have to arrange to get the non-eggified Zope2 products on the path, which is not easy. This recipe works for me. tseaver 2008-09-11T09:45:44Z http://palladion.com/home/tseaver/obzervationz/2008/urispace-revisited-20080903 I blogged yesterday about the fact that I had docs online for the repoze.urispace package, but didn't do much to motivate readers' interest: repoze.urispace should be interesting if you have an application which needs policies which vary based on "where" in the site the request is addressed. Examples might include: fine- grained security, theme selection, caching policies, etc. tseaver 2008-09-04T02:30:11Z http://palladion.com/home/tseaver/obzervationz/2008/repoze.urispace-docs-20080830 I have uploaded Sphinxified documentation for repoze.urispace, a library package which implements most of the W3C URISpace spec for use in WSGI middleware. I'm planning to use it to select themes and rulesets for Deliverance based on the URI; other uses might include setting caching headers, or doing some flavor of "declarative security" in middleware. tseaver 2008-08-31T00:42:17Z http://palladion.com/home/tseaver/obzervationz/2008/unit_testing_notes-20080724 Notes on getting the most mileage out of tests written with the Python unittest module tseaver 2008-07-24T11:43:44Z http://palladion.com/home/tseaver/obzervationz/2008/ten_years_of_python Looking back at ten years of programming web applications with Python, and musings on what lies ahead. tseaver python wSGI Zope repoze 2008-06-22T18:59:05Z http://palladion.com/home/tseaver/obzervationz/2008/Products.plone_gs-1.0-released I just uploaded version 0.1 of a new product to the Cheeseshop. It provides partial GenericSetup support for the tools present in a Plone 2.5.x site. I will be tracking issues against the product at http://agendaless.com/home/tseaver/software/plone_gs/issues tseaver 2008-05-26T00:35:24Z http://palladion.com/home/tseaver/obzervationz/2008/bulidout_vs_plain_setuptools A brief proposal on how and when one might prefer to use "standard" setuptools features, rather than relying on zc.bulidout. tseaver 2008-04-24T00:32:58Z http://palladion.com/home/tseaver/obzervationz/2008/my_two_cents I'd like to thank the Plone Summit organizers for inviting me to the summit, even though I decided not to go (I just got back from a week in Japan, and **boy** are my arms tired). tseaver zope plone summit 2008-02-08T04:53:05Z http://palladion.com/home/tseaver/obzervationz/2007/eggtestinfo-0.2-released I have released version 0.2 of a setuptools plugin to the Cheeseshop. When installed, the plugin extends the '.egg-info' generation done by many setup commands to create a new file, 'test_info.txt', which captures the data used by the 'setup.py test' command. zope setuptools eggs plugin 2007-11-16T21:38:11Z http://palladion.com/home/tseaver/obzervationz/2007/thrashcatcher-0.1-released thrashcatcher is a Zope2 product which adds log records to the trace log showing the number of objects loaded and stored in each request. It should help in tracking down which parts of your application are thrashing the ZODB connection cache. tseaver 2007-10-13T01:47:03Z http://palladion.com/home/tseaver/obzervationz/2007/behind_door_number_3_20070606 This is the keynote I gave to the 2007 DZUG Tagung in Potsdam, Monday, June 4th. tseaver 2007-06-09T01:19:20Z http://palladion.com/home/tseaver/obzervationz/2006/CMFFolderExport-0.1-release The product is a simple add-on for CMF 2.0, exposing views for exporting / importing folderish content as tarballs. tseaver 2006-04-26T13:05:57Z