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Feb282006
Selenium @ FOSDEM – Not every Python hacker went to PyCon last weekend
FOSDEM Summary:
I was invited to speak at FOSDEM this past weekend in Brussels, Belgium. (Too bad it conflicted with PyCon.) FOSDEM is an acronym for “Free and Open Source Developers’ European Meeting”. Richard Stallman had the opening keynote covering software patents, and Jeff Waugh from Canonical talked about why software freedom should be recognized and cherished [...]
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Feb222006
Thoughts on Skills Tracking in a Consulting Company
At ThoughtWorks, we have an old and boring skills and certification tracking system which managers use to find the right people for projects. The list of skills and skill categories are static. And any additions, modifications, or deletions to the list of skills or categories must be handled by an administrator. (Linking people to skills, [...]
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Feb092006
Ask Google: Python Web Framework Statistics
search-term web groups blog amazon.com-search
python zope 8,920,000 20,700 2,294 9
python plone 2,730,000 2,420 784 2
python twisted 2,010,000 14,500 1,396 4
python subway 714,000* 2,380* 626 4
python aquarium 659,000* 4,340* 505 7
python django 543,000 2,660 [...]
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Feb022006
Zope vs Django – Here’s some gasoline to put out the fire
This started out as a small comment to Paul Everitt’s post “Python, web frameworks, acts of good faith, making the case”, but it quickly became a long rant deserving its own space.
Having spent quality time with both Plone (2+ years) and Django (6+ months), I have some experience and basis for comparison between the two [...]
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Feb012006
Hacking in LDAP support to Django
I finally started using Django in a production app at work. I need to add username/password authentication, but I don’t want YANP (Yet Another Name and Password) for my users to remember. The obvious solution is to hook into ThoughtWorks’ internal LDAP server. But alas, Django does not have LDAP support built-in.
However, it was very [...]