I refreshed a little the ohloh minitage's related page to have some marketing analysis around minitage basecode.

For this, i wanted to add all repositories, what a heck for 200 repos...

Time to create minitage.ohloh to create the repositories for me using some fake browser ;-).

This package uses lxml (XPath), zope.testbrowser (fake browser) and urllib (some handmade http requests) to make the work done.

GIVE ME ONLY DEPENDENCIES

You can know select to build all dependencies but not the package.

For exemple, to build all python-2.4 dependencies but not python-2.4 itself, you can do:

minimerge -v --only-dependencies python-2.4

BUILD THIS PYTHON PACKAGE FOR THIS PYTHON

For 'eggs' packages, the default was to make come in dependencies all python avaiable in minitage and to build the 'site-packages-Major.Minor' part if it was a buildout build..

Now, nginx and apache are packaged inside minitage.

You have :

• two templates initiating instance of both webservers in minitage.paste.extras
• the related packages to be build via minitage (nginx-0.8, apache-2.2)

Enjoy running:

easy_install -U minitage.paste
paster create -t minitage.instances.nginx myproject #deploy some nginx instance (init scripts, logrotates, docroot)
paster create -t minitage.instances.apacher myproject #deploy some nginx instance (init scripts, logrotates, docroot)

For a project I have tried to create a more simple editorial process for Plone.To understand this you have first to know the normal editorial process of Plone:
* First you have to go to the folder where you want to add your article.
* Next you click on add an article
* You fill the form (content [...]

Because I often duplicate a production site on a local machine in order to do some debugging/bugfixes, I like everything to be ready the sooner as possible without having to do a lot of clicks.

Here is how I override values in my custom settings.php file instead of loosing time clicking into the administration pages or even doing configuration alteration with Drush.

Here is a common production site settings.php $conf variable alteration :

What do you think this code will output:

If you answered NULL, 0 or '7rray', you're absolutely wrong. The magic with PHP is whatever you use (int) or intval() you get absolutely weird results, because it'll try to parse your string as an integer whatever is in it.

Some months ago, I was developing some Drupal modules for my Company, I noticed the time I loose each time I have to run a Drush command (such as clear cache) in order to do basic Drupal developer stuff.

I was looking for an easy way to get the current browser.contents in my real browser to easy debug what is happening in my doctest.
Here is the snippet:
Updated the 01/13/2009

>>> import tempfile as tmp
>>> def contents():
... fd, fn = tmp.mkstemp(suffix=".html", prefix="testbrowser-")
... file = open(fn, 'w')
... file.write(browser.contents)
... [...]

I was a Fedora user until Fedora Core 6 but the second Ubuntu distribution was a really nice experience so I made the jump (fast packaging system, huge repo, etc).

Since 9.04 (or just before) I have been annoyed by the notification system NotifyOSD, I find disturbing to blur (or hide w/o compositing) the message on mouseover and the popup doesn’t provide contextual actions. The Ayatana project get Ubuntu away from the upstream development (many patches to integrate libindicate, etc).

L'association Ploss met son modèle de slide officielle à disposition de tous pour assurer une homogénéité lors des diverses présentations.

OpenERP est un ERP distribué gratuitement sous une licence libre (GPL). Développé pour répondre aux besoins complexes et évolutifs d'entreprises en pleine croissance, il est à la fois flexible et puissant. Avec plus de 200 modules, son champ fonctionnel très large couvre la plupart des besoins de l'entreprise.

Plone has lots of features. collective.remove is a project to remove some features from Plone and be usefull to integrators.
Why ? My customer don’t need them and for performance purpose, it’s good to remove things not used.
What ? This project has three eggs at the moment:

collective.remove.kss
collective.remove.kupu
collective.remove.rules

To know what to remove, it’s per project need. [...]

Very long time since last post. The new thing in my geek life is I’ve switched to Django.

My last issue today was to display an error message instead of redirecting to login page when the use doesn’t have permission. Here is a decorator which replace the permission_required of django. Feel free to rename it to avoid confusion

Problem description

If you are using JEditable, you probably know the nice tutorial and all its very useful comments to create custom editable fields : Create custom input types with JEditable

But JEditable has a point that may be blocking in more complex applications: it only returns one input field to the submitted form/request in charge of editing the record.

And some time this simply does not do the trick.

In a lot of cases you will have to use complex widgets:

I really like generic setup to build plone instance.
But, I was not able to do some things like setup contents (folders for structure, documents to make some example pages, …), keywords and portlets.
Note: The default import structure step of Plone doesn’t do enought things for me, and I find it hard to use. So I [...]

Let's say we would like to prevent an application server to serve static content. And let's take a complex example, Plone. Plone is a Zope based application server and is not using a clean url-map for static contents. We'll take plone as an example but it's not the only app which is not handling static files outside general uri-application-mapping.

Plone need to reach a new QA level: Adding nightly performance tests. It is important when you make a modification on the code to know if there is a impact on the performance of the application. As Elisabeth said in the “unloading plone” conference, measure !
To understand and use technologies, you first need to know [...]

L'équipe de développement "Grok" vient tout juste de publier Grok 1.0 ! Grok 1.0 est l'aboutissement de 3 années de travail depuis le démarrage du projet fin 2006. Grok offre une plateforme de développement stable et puissante permettant de développer toutes sortes d'applications web en mettant l'accent sur l'extensibilité et la réutilisabilité.
[Ce post est une traduction partielle et adaptée de l'annonce officielle de la publication de Grok 1.0]

Today I have worked on Collection (ATTopic). I have discovered a great feature.
You can use related items to choose first results. It can be very useful to manage a home page. First results are the most important items because they are the most read.
So choosing first items is important and at the same time [...]

Chameleon.zpt is a fast Zope Page Template implementation based on the Chameleon template compiler. It's largely compatible with zope.pagetemplate. Some benchmarks says Chameleon is 16x faster !

Chameleon page templates differ from standard Zope page templates in a few simple aspects which I propose to discover.

Why installing Oracle 64 bits

Ubuntu provides a nice and easy tutorial for installing Oracle 10 XE on 32 bits systems, thats works also on 64bits sytems, but:

• This is for Oracle XE, non standard or enterprise edition
• Database is limited to 5 simultaneous connections
• Default Tora 64 bits won't work on 64 bits systems with the Oralce XE 32 bits editions
• Oracle XE is limited in functionalities, url_quote, for example, is not provided with this distribution

I have succeed in seting up a full private pypi. So I want to share this.
First you need to install a Plone on a server with plone software center. Our system administrators has setup DNS to this plone with apache + http auth + SSL (https) and has given me one login / password.
Next you [...]

Réunis autour du thème « les logiciels libres, au cœur de la relance numérique », les acteurs mondiaux de l'Open Source organisent les 1er et 2 octobre 2009 le deuxième sommet international (Open World Forum – OWF) dédié aux décideurs pour débattre de l'impact technologique, économique et social des technologies ouvertes.

Today, I found the strangiest bug of the month; I was parsing some date parts with JavaScript to properly set default month of a YUI Calendar instance.

Why -1? Because month count starts with 0 in YUI Calendar, January is 0, december is 11; everything is fine until here.

Why the FUCK does my calendar always get to december?