Phil has finish to hack the SVN hooks to produce a RSS feed for the latest commits. This is pretty kool ? Now I don’t have to manage a mailing list for SVN commits.
I’m just wondering why his feed is out-dated on the python-weblog, and isn’t on the python-planet ?
After a long trip around the Python web developpement tools, it’s time to fix. In a previous post (please read all comments before ..) we have talk for a long time about various web frameworks. Here is my personnal conclusion:
In the previous post we talk about the different approach: Threads, Mod_Python, Twisted, and Fork (in comments)
I have tested quite a bunch of framework right now, all have some nice feature, and drawback. To conclude my tour and explain my choice, some little points:
I really enjoy Webware, because the API is really easy learn, and work like a charm. But as explain before, I have too much trouble w/ the threads in.. I hope cheetah will cleanup the way it includes Kits.. a long thread on the mailing list.
I don’t like the mod_python Publisher etc etc, I feal too close-to-apache. So i guess the I will choose MP Servlets. Performance are really good, and doesn’t need to maintain a server process on the host. This is good news because i want to host a couple of little websites. The major drawback is that there is no way to maintain (or even limit) a pool of objects between request. (without apache tweak) Another bad point is that debugging is awfull, need to restart all the time ..
But mod_python offer a lot for deployement..
This is the most flamewar subject, I ever seen on the Python community. I used twisted, and yes it’s really fun and powerfull. But I don’t want to mix deferred and threads (for DB .. and others stuffs). If I want to mix differents networks stuffs, twisted is my tool. but as previouly said (comments) I ‘m not really fuent with twisted.web
Hum, this is a fork based server.. I haven’t tested it a lot because it’s really template base, and I want to use Cheetah or ZPT not another-templating-o-matic. And fork, may cause issue if you have some hits (but skunk really seems to work well under heavy load so.. )
So, yes, i haven’t choose one of this. In fact, in the previous post somebody ask me about Quixote, so i decided to test it. And I found an interesting stuff,
Quixote use: scgi (mod_scgi + daemon), old-fashion-cgi or mod_python, medusa or twisted.
So I can:
There is some drawbacks of course:
As Phil said: This is your new toy, until the next.
He’s right. I dream one day, Python web’s framework will be more unified. Quixote is a good example of what power we can achieve if the framework cover a large amount of different approach in a unified way.
I’m using xfce window manager since a while now. I’m only using the taskbar and the wm in fact. But i was looking for a feature for a long time. Xfce wm doesn’t support matched window placement (ala sawfish).
For example, there is no way to place gkrellm on every workspace, or tell Kmail for stick on workspace 2. Yesterday, while surfing, i discover devilspie.
Example:
<!-- For gkrellm: place on every desktop, and hide in the tasklist -->
<flurb name="gkrellm on all Desktops">
<matchers>
<matcher name="DevilsPieMatcherWindowName">
<property name="application_name" value="gkrellm"/>
</matcher>
</matchers>
<actions>
<action name="DevilsPieActionSetWorkspace">
<property name="pinned" value="TRUE"/>
</action>
<action name="DevilsPieActionHide">
<property name="skip_tasklist" value="TRUE"/>
</action>
</actions>
</flurb>
<!-- stick Kmail on desktop 4 -->
<flurb>
<matchers>
<matcher name="DevilsPieMatcherWindowName">
<property name="application_name" value="KMail"/>
</matcher>
</matchers>
<actions>
<action name="DevilsPieActionSetWorkspace">
<property name="workspace_index" value="4"/>
</action>
</actions>
</flurb>
I really enjoy the quality of the comments published on this blog. Beside, my post aren’t really interesting for most people, this blog get a lot of feedback from the Python community, and Linux Users (mainly wifi related).
The main issue is that most of comments aren’t read by other people because they aren’t aware of the post. so I decided to make to comment RSS feed public.
The comment RSS feed is: http://www.larsen-b.com/comments_rss .
So take you favorite rss reader (bloglines is really fine, but slow right now) and add this :)
Oh god, read this on slashdot:
Here in France, quite nobody have a gun, and guess what .. if you kill an intruder you will go in jail! and that’s fine. I’m wondering if you look at me as a love-and-peace smoker, but i’m not. That’s the law, you can imagine killing an intruder just because he has break your car ? I’m not.
I have the feeling that U.S.A is a country where:
Slahdotters are you killers ?
I think, I should ask for everybody reading this blog:
"Do you have a gun ?", and ban people that say: yes
I write a couple emails to the commercial service of Weemote, to buy some dV remote. This guys are pretty cools, and they are going to ship the weemote to France, even if they official doesn’t support it.
And tonight i receive this:
Just to let you know, we are being threatened by a major hurricane here in South Florida so we may not be able to ship quickly. However, we will do our best. John
Who said that Plone is a too complicated ?
Check out the Plone Concept Map to be sure you know what you mean !
– Enjoy the road :)
In a recent post Ian explain he get a lot of trouble w/ the configuration of his mail system. I ran into the same issues a little time ago. Now i’m using postfix and courier-imap and maildrop to dispatch the mail between. This setup is really easy because Postfix just accept incomming mail, and maildrop deliver it in the right imap folders. By this way, i only have to tweak maildrop to add some users. And works fine with virtualhost. In my current setup, i’m using a home-made spambayes deamon (sb_global_server), to spam-tag all incomming mail. (even for virtual host users)
Now, i need to setup a mailing list manager… and issues are back again :( I read the mailman howto, and no, it doesn’t support virtual-hosting out-of-the-box. Play with a bunch of alias? no thanks… I can use another one of course, but intregation w/ postfix is not so-trivial for most of them.
So why not write a full featured SMTP daemon in Py? We will get:
Right now, if you want to have a good mail system you need to use a bunch of stuffs, written in a bunch of langage .. and use a bunch of tricks to glue each others… But everybody wants a nice/simple mail system ?
Yes, i get another notebook on my desk. In fact, i buy a Sony Vaio K155S for a uncle. I won’t publish a long post about installing Linux on this, because he will use Windows XP. I spend some hours to install several things: OpenOffice, WinSCP, Mozilla etc etc ..
This notebook run really smoothly, it has great CPU, and video card. Playing RTC, is really fun!
It has been a long time since i played w/ XP. I now i’m remember why i don’t like it. I spend most of the time to ask me: my name, my company and my serial number. And yes, this is too intrusive for me… and I’m wasting my time! Every vendor, want to know everything .. my sex lenght? nobody ? :))
Anyway, despite I found this notebook really kool, I think the design is really bad:
I’m currently writting a Knoppix DVD edition on this stuff to test :)
Everybody hate binary kernel module: that’s clear, but sometimes that the only way to use some hardware.
This is really a bad news to all webcam users: USB kernel hackers decide to patch PWC kernel driver to avoid the use of the extended kernel module which is binary only. Check out this for more infos.
update: read this thread. Why Philips doesn’t provide spec ?