ctpug, part two
28 Jul
The Cape Town Python Users Group now has 40 members. So far, it seems like we're going to have a once-off weekend afternoon meeting sometime in the next two months. If you haven't yet done so, join the discussion and planning.
After exporting pages from Confluence, the next step was to convert between the Confluence wiki format and the MediaWiki format. The differences are sometimes quite amusing - in a link with a different name from the page it is linking to, one puts the name first and the page second, and the other the page first and the name second.
We decided to move from Atlassian's Confluence wiki software to MediaWiki, in the hopes that a more familiar wiki system will encourage participation. To start, I exported from Confluence, got a zip file with entities.xml in it. Attached is a script to create a text file per page.
Cape Town Python Users Group
19 Jul
A Python User Group is starting to form in Cape Town. If you're in Cape Town and interested in Python, join the Mailing list.
Engal 0.2.5
12 Jul
I've added Engal to the Cheese Shop. Still requires some work, but it should be usable for the single-user case.
Engal photo gallery
09 Jul
I've been taking it a bit easy the last two weeks, hacking an hour or two a day on a photo gallery using TurboGears. I'd forgotten how enjoyable it was to use Python, and hopefully that will recharge me a bit after so much soul-sapping PHP. Anyway, here's what about 250 lines of Python code and 300 lines of Kid templates can get you.