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  1. Why toppcloud (Silver Lining) will not be agnostic

    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 …

  2. Leaving TOPP

    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 …

  3. Weave: valuable client-side data

    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 …

  4. toppcloud (Silver Lining) and Django

    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…

    Creating a Layout

    First thing you have to do (after installing toppcloud of course) is create …

  5. Toward a new self-definition for open source

    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 …

  6. WebOb decorator

    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 …

  7. Woonerf and Python

    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 …

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