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1. New Blog Software (Previous)

   I’ve switched my software over to WordPress. This was long overdue, as anyone who ever wanted to read anything at all on this site probably knows. Sometime I should really write an article reflecting on the failures of my previous blog software. Lets just say that flat files aren …

2. Old Archives

3. Atom Models

   I’ve been doing a bit more with Atom lately.

   First, I started writing a library to manipulate Atom feeds and entries. For the moment this is located in atom.py. It uses lxml, as does everything markup related I do these days.

   I came upon a revelation of sorts …

4. Environmental Theater

   If you read Bruce Schneier, as any good geek should, you probably are familiar with the term “security theater”: measures that provide the feeling of security while doing little or nothing to actually provide security.

   OK, digression. We had this recycling program in Chicago where we put our recyclables in …

5. Pronouncing “Django”

   I’m not saying this to anyone in particular, but I’ve heard people pronounce Django incorrectly way too often. The “dj” in Django is a hard J, like in the word “jury” or “jolly”. You don’t pronounce the D.

   Update: Alex Limi tells me I’m wrong too …

6. Fast CGI that isn’t FastCGI

   There’s a bunch of techniques for doing deployments of long-running processes (Zope, Python server, Rails, etc). A pretty good technique is to do HTTP proxying. There’s some details and conventions I’d like to see for HTTP, but that’s not my concern here.

   HTTP proxying isn’t …

7. Zonbu & S3

   I read Edd Dumbill’s post on the Zonbu computer with interest. The Zonbu is a small and inexpensive computer, reminiscent of the Mac Mini but running Linux. The disk is fairly small (4Gb flash) and is intended to serve more as a cache for your network storage than as …

8. Atompub & OpenID

   One of the thinmgs I would like to do is to interact with Atompub (aka Atom Publishing Protocol) stores in Javascript through the browser. Since this effectively the browser itself interacting with the Atompub server, browser-like authentication methods would be nice. But services like Atompub don’t work nicely with …

9. Tempita

   I mentioned a templating language I put into Paste a while ago, but since then I extracted it into a separate package called Tempita. I think the documentation is fairly complete (it’s a small language), but I’ll describe it shortly here.

   I wanted a text-substitution language, because I …

10. XO B4

    

    I recently received a Beta-4 XO laptop. I won’t describe the hardware on the whole, but probably a number of readers here have seen the B2 laptops so I thought I’d write up a quick description of the changes I’ve noticed. If you haven’t seen the …

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