After three and a half years at The Open Planning Project, my time there is done.
For a while TOPP has been trying to find itself, to determine what it is that it can do best, and how to do that. I think TOPP has finally started really figuring that …
I’ve been looking at Weave some lately. The large-print summary on the page is Synchronize Your Firefox Experience Across Desktop and Mobile. Straight forward enough.
Years and years ago I stopped really using bookmarks. You lose them moving from machine to machine (which Weave could help), but mostly I …
I wrote up instructions on using toppcloud (update: renamed Silver Lining) with Django. They are up on the site (where they will be updated in the future), but I’ll drop them here too…
First thing you have to do (after installing toppcloud of course) is create …
Deployment is one of the things I like least about development, and yet without deployment the development doesn’t really matter.
I’ve tried a few things (e.g. fassembler), built a few things (virtualenv, pip), but deployment just sucked less as a result. Then I got excited about App …
I’ve been programming Python web software for quite a while now. I considered coming here and talked about WSGI, standards, cross-framework integration, etc., but I decided I wanted to come up here and talk to you as compatriots, as fellow open source programmers.
Over the past year or so …
Lately I’ve been writing a few applications (e.g., PickyWiki and a revisiting a request-tracking application VaingloriousEye), and I usually use no framework at all. Pylons would be a natural choice, but given that I am comfortable with all the components, I find myself inclined to assemble the pieces …
A while back I described fassembler and one of the things I liked in it is how the configuration works. It uses a conventional declarative INI-style but also allows arbitrary code, so that defaults can be based on each other.
Here’s a basic example of a default configuration …
At TOPP there’s a lot of traffic discussion, since a substantial portion of the organization is dedicated to Livable Streets initiatives. One of the traffic ideas people have gotten excited about is Woonerf. This is a Dutch traffic planning idea. In areas where there’s the intersection of lots …
A couple posts have got me thinking about cultural imperialism lately: a post by Guido van Rossum about “missionaries” and OLPC not about OLPC at all, a post by Chris Hardie and a speech by Wade Davis.
Some of the questions raised: are we destroying cultures? If so, what can …
I’m not a designer, but I spend as much time looking at web pages as the next guy. So I took interest when I came upon this post on font size by Wilson Miner, which in turn is inspired by the 100e2r (100% easy to read) standard by Oliver …