After some pondering at PyCon, I decided on a new name for toppcloud: Silver Lining. I’ll credit a mysterious commenter “david” with the name idea. The command line is simply silver — silver update has a nice ring to it.
There’s a new site: cloudsilverlining.org; not notably different …
No, I should say forms particularly.
I have lots of things to blog about, but nothing makes me want to blog like code. Ideas are hard, code is easy. So when I saw Jacob’s writeup about dynamic Django form generation I felt a desire to respond. I didn’t …
I haven’t received a great deal of specific feedback on toppcloud (update: renamed Silver Lining), only a few people (Ben Bangert, Jorge Vargas) seem to have really dived deeply into it. But — and this is not unexpected — I have already gotten several requests about making it more agnostic with …
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 …