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 …
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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 …
As of last week, I am now an employee of Mozilla! Thanks to everyone who helped me out during my job search.
I’ll be working both with the Mozilla Web Development (webdev) team, and Mozilla Labs.
The first thing I’ll be working on is deployment. In part because …
Since I’ve been thinking about deployment I’ve been thinking a lot more about what “configuration management” means, how it should work, what it should do.
I guess my quick summary of configuration management is that it is setting up a server correctly. “Correct” is an ambiguous term, but …
Lately I’ve been writing code using WebOb and just a few other small libraries. It’s not entirely obvious what this looks like, so I thought I’d give a simple example.
I make each application a class. Instances of the class are “configured applications”. So it looks a …
Another WSGI web server benchmark was published. It’s a decent benchmark, despite some criticisms. But it benchmarks what everyone benchmarks: serving up a trivial app really really quickly. This is not very useful to me. Also, performance is not to me the most important differentiation of servers.
In Silver …