Posts tagged “Zope”
2010 Jun 10
Grok has book. Book good!
I little suspected the great chasm that lies between the simple act of agreeing to review a book, and the actual exercise of sitting down later to write the review. It feels quite pleasant, really, to jot off a positive reply to the publisher's polite question. One feels magnanimous for…
2009 Sep 10
GetPaid needs customizable forms
I would like some advice from Zope and Plone folks about how to create forms that are not only easy for other developers to specialize, but which allow several specializations to be composed together. While I have used zope.formlib and z3c.form before for simple tasks, I have not yet been…
2009 Aug 15
The July 2009 issue of Python Magazine
I am home from a relaxing vacation to the Midwest, and while I was gone last week my excellent publishing team released the July issue Python Magazine to the world. I am particularly pleased that two of the feature articles in this issue come from important segments of the Python…
2009 Jul 20
Plone and IRC
Hypothesis — the vibrancy of a framework's IRC channel is proportional to the amount of time that the framework takes to start up each time you tweak your code or settings and need it reloaded. Further hypothesis — this relationship is non-linear. My guess is that frameworks which take, say,…
2008 Dec 9
Porting a C extension module to Python 3.0
With several packages already advertising Python 3.0 compatibility, it seemed high time to look into releasing my PyEphem astronomy package in an edition compatible with the new language. But I hesitated: how difficult is it really, and how many hours of work will it consume, to port a C-language extension…
2008 Jun 5
My NOLA Plone Symposium talk, “the Zope 3 Component Architecture”
I have delivered my “Zope 3 Component Architecture” talk to the 2008 North American Plone Symposium meeting here in New Orleans. I want to thank the folks at Enfold Systems both for hosting the Symposium, inviting me to speak, and for generously making it possible for me to attend! Here…
2008 Feb 23
Presentations on Buildout and KSS
After several frustrating weeks learning how to create, edit, and publish a screencast under Linux (about which I will write a separate post), I have now published screencasts of both presentations that I gave at the PyAtl meetup in January. I opened with a talk about the import statement, and…
2007 Nov 9
My November Grok Presentation
In this post, I provide the slides and examples from a recent talk that I gave to some fellow software developers at Georgia Tech. Many of them were not familiar with web frameworks, and I wanted to introduce them to two common concepts: the idea of “convention over configuration,” and…
