I love Packt. As soon as I have told them that some people liked the book but complained about the typos, they proposed to go ahead and launch a new print cycle. Basically it means that the next buyers will have a typo-free book. At least for all the typos that were reported on my Trac [...]

I found a bit of time to work on distribution matters. Here’s a status of what I am doing there. There are two topics I am focusing on right now. clean up and enhance Python’s distutils package implement the mirroring infrastructure at PyPI distutils work Nathan Van Gheem proposed a cool patch in collective.dist, (this package is a port of [...]

I feel really bad about this comment on my book : How To Be Dissappointed in Something You Recommend. Just a quick word about the try, return finally code pattern, since I had some feedback about it. I would like to mention that this code pattern is perfectly right: def function():     try:       return something     finally:       do something I [...]

I like Google Alert, the idea of receiving a mail every day that summarizes all articles related to a given topic is really helpfull when you need to focus on a specific subject for a while. But this is not enough. I want to receive a mail that points me to any mailing list or planet [...]

I am back from the Plone Conference in D.C., and the jetlag is gone. The jetlag is gone for weeks now but it’s hard to find the time to blog these days :/ On the talks I have seen and topics I have chatted about There were a lot of great talks in D.C., and it was [...]

I was totally drowned into some customer projects since I came back from the Plone Conference. But things are looking better now, so I can take a bit of time to start blogging about the conference. I’ll probably do three blog posts: this one about my tutorial, the next one about the conference itself and [...]

Just a quick note: We have started the sprint in D.C. on packaging matters. Our tasks for the moment: re-read all the threads in distutils-ML since mid-september. write a short list of actions that can be done NOW in distutils, setuptools and PyPI write a short list of writing that can be done to define a “new” tool Please, join [...]

So I promised I would create a shirt for the top #5 contributors of my fund raising. I think I found an idea. My friend JJ is wearing a shirt I made on the picture you see. That’s the phrase we wanted me to put on the shirt: There’s no place like 127.0.0.1 (except maybe ::1) That is [...]

They are many commenting systems out there for Plone, Zope 3, etc. But let’s take this simple statement : why a content provider like any Zope-based application should deal with comments ? A comment is a simple piece of text, that refers to a page and maybe to another comment. There are no workflow needed in [...]

(This post is a work in progress, as things still evolve) In a way, I am glad I have made a fork, and I am glad this is going to be the shortest fork ever. A lot of people reacted on my proposal and I could get a very clear picture of what is wrong in [...]