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Re: Django, image uploading, validation and newforms

privacy protection virus — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 02:59:16 -0000

This is quite outdated:)

Re: Producer/Consumer in Python

Lawrence Oluyede — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 03:27:37 -0000

Fixed them, thanks!

Re: Producer/Consumer in Python

Guest — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 19:36:10 -0000

The links to the 3 example py files are dead (404)

Re: Producer/Consumer in Python

flam — Mon, 30 May 2011 13:57:37 -0000

even though i don't know much about concurrent programming i wouldn't concider producer-consumer to be a "toy program", more like a pattern that can be applied in many situations. (ie. producers being threads that fetch something from the internet and consumer being a gui widget that display information about the downloads or somesuch)

Re: Blogging @ Better Software 2010

Lawrence Oluyede — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 07:28:24 -0000

I'll be there too, Sandro. See you!

Re: Blogging @ Better Software 2010

Sandro Paganotti — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 07:26:12 -0000

Wow! Congrats! Hope to see you in the following PyConf :D

Re: Pinder, take two

Lawrence Oluyede — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:47:23 -0000

@Luca: eh eh :-) here you can find some reason to use Git or distributed source control systems in general: http://whygitisbetterthanx.com...

Bye!

Re: Pinder, take two

Lawrence Oluyede — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:46:34 -0000

@Orestis. Hi there! The fork is not that obsolete, the problem is that tracking down continous changes of Campfire HTML layout is not the best thing in the world. I noticed they released an official API and I rewrote it. I still have to implement room creation (which oddly does not work even with curl), upload and streaming and that's it.

Let me know!

ps. I will definitely look at msysgit. What about tortoise-git? Have you ever tried it?

Re: Pinder, take two

Lawrence Oluyede — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:43:54 -0000

@Alan: yeah, Windows support is the main drawback. But it's not still true that Git is difficult. I learn it in a half hour reading http://learn.github.com

The documentation is excellent.

It's true that it has more features, but it's not that difficult, at least for my current use cases (lone development and merge of forks).

You can go very far with just commit, add, checkout, pull, push, mv and merge

Re: Pinder, take two

Luca Matteis — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:55:42 -0000

Apart from local history backup I don't understand the reason of using git.

Re: Pinder, take two

Orestis Markou — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:32:42 -0000

re: Pinder - nice, I guess defunkt's and mine forks are obsolete now (or we should just test the new repo to see if it satisfies our needs). Will let you know!

re: git - the msysgit client is pretty stable, and the GUI is more than adequate (even though it looks ugly). Give it a go to see if it fits your needs!

Re: Pinder, take two

Alan Franzoni — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:53:06 -0000

I think that if Windows support is needed at your company, it's quite hard to migrate to git - the native client is still in a beta version, and the GUI is pretty rough.

Combine that with the fact the tool is still pretty complex if compared with mercurial or svn and you have a perfect showstopper.

Re: Erlang talk

Alan Franzoni — Tue, 12 May 2009 05:26:37 -0000

Già, nonostante tu te la sia fatta addosso per le due settimane precedenti, hai fatto un ottimo lavoro. Complimenti, Lawrence!

Re: Offline

Sandro Paganotti — Wed, 06 May 2009 04:37:31 -0000

Damn ;D I'll be in Bracellona for Euruko !
If you'll made a video of your speech please let me know :D

Re: IronPython in Action, book review

Lawrence Oluyede — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:51:12 -0000

Great! I'm looking forward for the appendices then. See you in Italy, Alex!

Re: IronPython in Action, book review

Alex Martelli — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:57:34 -0000

Seconded -- as a tech reviewer, I liked the book (and IronPython itself) just as much. Michael just sent me appendix B (magic methods) and I think that's truly excellent (sent him substantial detailed feedback too). Now if IP 2 just worked right with Mono I'd be SO happy (I don't DO windows;-)...!

Alex

Re: IronPython in Action, book review

Lawrence Oluyede — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:22:36 -0000

Didn't know that, thanks for pointing it out

Re: IronPython in Action, book review

Michael Foord — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:48:07 -0000

Hey Lawrence - thanks very much for this review, much appreciated it and I'm glad you enjoyed the book.

One minor point - chapters 11 & 12 (ASP.NET, databases & webservices) were written by my colleague Christian Muirhead.

All the best,

Michael Foord

Re: Django has the quid

Lawrence Oluyede — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:19:14 -0000

Exactly Ben, I understand the reason why Pylons exist obviously, the problem that I see in the long run is about the fragmentation. Turbogears had the same problem too. Stale documentation or 10 ways to do a tutorial because everybody used a different set of packages.
Pylons is more linear in that way, fortunately.

If the potential contributors are divided amongst different subprojects there's less concentration of people around the same problem. Just my consideration

Re: Django has the quid

Ben Bangert — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:02:24 -0000

Yep, there's definitely differences in the communities, I think mainly as they both hit different sweet spots. There's going to be a lot more in common for the Django community by the nature of Django itself. Just like there's a strong Plone community, strong Joomla community, strong Drupal community, etc. You have a large group of people making sites that generally are fairly close in core functionality.

I'd consider the Pylons community fairly strong as well, but definitely a different feel to it as the range of problems people are using it for seems a bit more varied. With Django, 98% of those using it will be using functions it provides such as its ORM, its templates, contrib modules it comes with (which all come with a set of assumptions about how the site works), etc. These things mean that most Django (certainly not all though) will be very similar in many ways.

Pylons projects can deviate heavily from one another, which means you can't have all this re-use between members in the community, as most of them make fairly different assumptions. But some core aspects are definitely picking up steam, for example FormAlchemy has come a long ways and makes it a snap to generate forms from SQLAlchemy models.

They'll always have different communities, as they address different ways of solving the problems at hand which generally appeals to different groups of developers.

Re: Django has the quid

Lawrence Oluyede — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:52:07 -0000

Arthur: I am sure of that, despite the fact that I think fragmentation isn't always a good thing

Re: Django has the quid

Arthur — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:16:41 -0000

You might also want to take a look at web2py and Glashammer. Both are also very interesting frameworks.

Re: Generics are cool, but Python is cooler

Lantash — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 10:59:29 -0000

Why so complicated? sum(range(11)) works as well. Python rocks!

Re: Status update

emaaaa — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 06:55:54 -0000

always

Re: Status update

Lawrence Oluyede — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 06:00:23 -0000

We should keep up the good work