(6) Sat Jan 10 2009 14:29 Grok's songlist application:

I've been following with interest a number of posts that talk about creating a simple REST-based web application that persists the number of plays various songs have had. Here's the history:

• A pure WSGI application: http://www.eflorenzano.com/blog/post/writing-blazing-fast-infinitely-scalable-pure-wsgi/
• A easier to read but slower CherryPy application: http://blog.dowski.com/2009/01/08/http-utilities-with-cherrypy/
• An app using RESTish: http://dev.timparkin.co.uk/2009/01/happy-medium-from-wsgi-to-cherrypy.html
• And a followup using Werkzeug: http://dev.timparkin.co.uk/2009/01/werkzeug-and-werkzeugish-example.html

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(6) Thu Jan 29 2009 21:18 Cleaning up Zope 3's dependencies:

This week a bunch of us (myself, Christian Theune, Wolfgang Schnerring, Brandon Rhodes, Jan-Wijbrand Kolman and Sylvain Viollon) have been sprinting in my house at the "Grok Cave sprint". We've been working on cleaning up Zope 3's dependency structure, which in places is very hairy. This meant that you could often pull in one fairly innocent looking Zope 3 package and as a result pull in almost all of them. This makes it difficult to reuse packages and upgrade code. Loosely coupled code and all that.

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(8) Tue Mar 03 2009 23:12 Zope Criticisms:

Chris McDonough just posted a capsule criticism of the Zope project and culture to zope-dev in a discussion I started. I believe Chris and I have been "violently" agreeing on most many issues in this discussion... I thought this characterization is quite interesting and I'd like to share it with the wider world. I agree with it so much and disagree so much at the same time.

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(22) Wed Mar 18 2009 04:16 The Perils of Volunteering:

I'm on the board of the Zope Foundation. In fact, until thursday this week, when hopefully the new board gets seated, I'm its chairman.

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(1) Thu Mar 19 2009 20:14 A constructive general meeting of the Zope Foundation:

We just had a constructive general meeting of the Zope Foundation on IRC, the first one under the new bylaws.

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Wed Mar 25 2009 18:24 To PyCon I Go:

I decided to attend PyCon this year; there are a lot of people going there that I'd like to meet, and a lot of people I'd like to run into again. Oh, and there are cool talks too!

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Tue Jul 14 2009 15:05 Europython slides are online:

Long time no blog. I've been at Pycon and EuroPython since then (which both were great experiences!). At EuroPython I gave a talk titled "Things I helped create". I've just uploaded the slides for this in the upload area of the EuroPython wiki:

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(1) Wed Oct 07 2009 21:59 Grok 1.0 released!:

Grok 1.0 was released today! Almost exactly three years after the first lines of code were written, and many Grok-based applications later, we've finally released Grok 1.0.

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(8) Fri Nov 06 2009 22:33 The Success of the Zope Component Architecture:

Prompted by recent brief negative pronunciations by Malthe on the Zope Component Architecture (ZCA), I thought I'd talk a bit about what I think about it. I'm not going to go into hermeneutics here of what Malthe might mean -- others attempts at exegesis exist in the comments to that blog entry already. Instead, I'll just talk about what I think makes the ZCA useful, and why it is successful. Finally I'll go into some reasons why people are frustrated by the ZCA.