Dear lazyweb, what's the situation with Java and C++ OODBs? I seem to recall hearing vaguely good things about some Java OODBs from real people (i.e. not marketing flacks) but I haven't kept that information anywhere. (I did find this amusing article on how O/R mapping is the …
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A local friend asked for advice on her OSS project, because her boss is questioning the value of making things OSS. Here's my rambling reply, preserved for posterity:
There are several de facto models of open source at this level (the small niche projects level, that is). The first is …read more
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I'll edit http://us.pycon.org/TX2007/WebFrameworksPanel as I update things, but here's the proposal I submitted:
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After Mark Eichin's comment on my Jabber e-mail notification post, I realized I had to whip up a twill module for sending Jabber messages. Easily done; here's an example twill script:
extend_with twill_xmpp jabber_login titus2@xmpp.us XXXXX send_jabber_message titus@xmpp.us message
Since I know next to nothing about …
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So, I wrote a custom plugin called 'ocomments' that uses an SQLAlchemy- based database API to assign cookies to users who make comments. That way I can control who has automatic posting access (anyone who posts a sensible message, basically) and who doesn't. I can also toggle comment visibility on …
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A simple program to get pinged whenever you get new e-mail:
#! /usr/bin/env python import sys, email from pyxmpp.jid import JID from pyxmpp.jabber.simple import send_message inp = sys.stdin.read() message = email.message_from_string(inp) jid = 'someid@xmpp.us' password, recpt = 'XXXXX', 'otherid@xmpp.us' jid = JID(jid …read more
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After learning from Jeff Rush that no one had volunteered (yet) to organize a panel on Web technologies, I stepped up to the plate. I've also submitted a talk proposal about twill/scotch/figleaf and (with Grig) I'm going to submit a proposal for a testing tutorial, so attendees may …
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