This post started out as details of some Django work I’ve been doing lately. But it turned out that I needed to talk about zc.buildout first, so Django will have to wait.
Lately I’ve been working on an application for work that’s using CherryPy. Why not Django, you ask (since I was going to [...]
Tom posted an insightful comment to my post from last week regarding the iSummit report. His point was basically bringing me back from snarky-fun-land to reality-land: “OK, so Garton’s an idiot, but what if he makes legitimate points?” (my words, not his) My comments were the result of my initial read-through which pushed [...]
A recent message to the cc-icommons mailing list pointed readers to a self-described “slick” critical report of the iSummit held in Rio earlier this year. The reporter, Andrew Garton, takes Creative Commons to task for the “self-congratulatory” atmosphere, the acceptance of Microsoft as a sponsor and our apparently over-zealous promotion of Microsoft’s CC licensing [...]
I’m not sure how I found it, but over the weekend I ran across Rope, a Python IDE I hadn’t run into before. Rope sets itself apart from other tools I’ve used lately (including PyDev and Wing) by embracing a very functional approach to development. This approach is visible from the start [...]
I tried to submit an update for MozCC to addons.mozilla.org yesterday so that Firefox 1.5 users would receive auto-magic upgrades when they upgraded to Firefox 2.0. I received an email this morning letting me know it’d been rejected; not because it didn’t work, but because of the specified version of the “maximum” supported version [...]
