I'm working on an open source tool for managing war files called warconfig. We have a need for this at work. I have a pretty detailed write up here. Warconfig is a tool for deploying, upgrading, and rolling back war files on Tomcat (currently only version 5.5 on Gentoo …

This evening I attended a SLLUG meeting about deploying django with lighhtpd. I've never messed with lightty before, only heard off hand complaints that it doesn't like python too much.

The perl-esque configuration setup seemed to provide for virtual hosting setup pretty easily (much like webapp-config does for gentoo and …

I was able to head up to my alma matter and attend most of Startup School today. Here's my "gems", I tried to note the themes that were common:

Joe Kraus (Jotspot)

• Persistance Pays - (See Paul Graham below too)
• "No false positives" - Will reject a number of possibly good candidates …

I've been asked to throw together some impromptu sessions on python for some developers at work. So I'm asking the lazy (python) web what would/have they do/done? My current plan is to be in a lab-type enviroment (everyone will have a laptop/desktop). All attendees are already developers …

Learn with me as I experiment with pyvnc2swf. Hopefully I'll have a short series of howtos on creating a screencast (including mixing sound and that sort of fun stuff). Also, this isn't really linux specific per se, but one of the only ways to do it on linux (on mac …

Like Duncan, I've also been messing around with JSON-RPC lately. I'm got most of a WSGI implementation done and a python client library done. I have an article describing the client code here.

For pythoneers, I've got a question: This code is largely based on xmlrpclib. It could easily be …

My wife or I have recently had the experience of interacting with the customer service folks of 3 different companies. I'd like to share my experiences here for a few reasons:

• To draw attention (both good and bad) to the companies treatment of their customer
• To allow others to make …

I attended the tutorials the first day of Pycon. The first one I attended was Python 102. I guess I figured it would be more like 302, so there wasn't much new. Since I'm still basically programming in the 1.6-2.2 era I thought it would be good to …

This screencast should've been a presentation at Pycon. It does a relatively decent job comparing and constrasting J2EE, ROR, Zope, TG, and Django.

I talked to a handful of people at Pycon who said they would've enjoyed a panel discussion with the web framework creators discussing pros/cons and future …

Here's my recap of Mashupcamp. My definition of a mashup hasn't really changed since the camp has ended (for some reason I thought that it would). I would define a mashup as a webpage consuming non- native webservices (sprinkle liberally with googlemaps) which may be screenscraped or proxied.

One notable …