Dante's training continues
30 Jan
Obedience training for Dante started today after the long school holiday break. After some pre-lesson excitement which left me with scratch-marks on my feet (note to self: wear shoes to training), he calmed down and was reasonably well-behaved for the class with Jeremy.
One of the coolest Python-using (or not, for that matter) projects in Africa is translate.org.za, which has used Python-based tools to manage translations for a while. I forgot to mention that pootle, their Python-using web-based translation software (and service) launched in December. And a bit more recently, translate.org.za organised a translate-athon that finished the Xhosa translation of Firefox. Great work Dwayne and David!
Asia Source started
28 Jan
Even though I'm not there, I feel this tingly sensation that Asia Source is going to be successful in getting developers from around Asia and beyond meeting, talking, and learning. The Africa Source blog never really had a chance due to terrible connectivity, but I'm happy to see that the Asia Source blog has been up and running for a bit now, and the first entries about people arriving have started. I really wish I were there, but since I can't be, it's great I can follow it from afar.
Accepted for Open Enterprise
28 Jan
My abstract has been accepted for Open Enterprise on 15 March. ITWeb are running a story featuring my presentation with a few quotes. Mom will be so proud.
More Web Framework Wars
25 Jan
First of all, for those tuning in, the title is just a joke. I'd like to believe we're having a reasonable discussion. Leon has replied with some interesting observations and questions which I think need answers.
PyCon abstracts up
23 Jan
I think I'm going to cry. Andrew Kuchling mentions that the PyCon 2005 presentation abstracts are up. It sounds like there's heaps of stuff to be learned there. (Remind me again why I decide to stay in a country several thousand kilometers away from these conferences and where I can't earn remotely enough to attend them anyway?)
Since ljb doesn't seem to allow comments (I may be missing something), I thought I'd reply to some of what he says in Web Framework Wars Episode 1.
Part of my tangeant using zope.interface was to avoid remaking list/edit admin pages for my SQLObject objects. Very little object-specific was left, and so I've now made an EntityPage that entity list/edit pages can inherit from.
Site Webware Page
20 Jan
I've done two previous Webware-based applications, and I'm slowly getting a sense of how to set up a good base to build upon. This uniform site behaviour is in a site class (which I unimaginatively call WebWarePage) inheriting from the Page class, and deals with site appearance and login and admin areas.
Yay! Tectonic has just announced Africa's first open source (print) magazine, continuing the great work they've been doing as a news site for an African perspective of Open Source happenings. Well done Alastair!