Python Secret Weblog for 2005 July

(2) Sun Jul 03 2005 11:48 my EuroPython 2005 slides online:

I had a terribly good time at EuroPython 2005. The quality of talks was better than ever, with a nice diverse and big selection. I gave two of them. I also was on two panels, and just shouted out comments through other talks :). If you missed it, you missed quite the event.

[More]

(1) Mon Jul 04 2005 18:45 An open letter to anonymous Network World writers:

Dear anonymous Network World writers claiming to speak for corporate IT executives,

[More]

(1) Wed Jul 13 2005 12:08 extended catalog queries in Zope 3:

Yesterday I managed to build something in just a few hours in Zope 3 that I wouldn't have been able to build so easily in Zope 2. What I've built is an extended query system for the Zope 3 catalogs.

[More]

Wed Jul 20 2005 23:31 Zope community evaluating JSR-170:

JSR-170 or the Java Content Repository API, appeared on my radar somewhere early in 2004. JSR-170 is interesting to creators of content management systems because it promises a common API for accessing and manipulating CMS content. Implementing this API in a CMS could bring a number of potential benefits to it, such as interoperability, learnability, not reinventing the wheel, and so on. I go deeper into possible reasons for adopting any specification in my previous article Criteria for evaluating specifications.

[More]