Where have all the students gone?

Several organisations in the Google Summer of Code seems to not have gotten as many applications as they expected. This is the case for both the Zope and Plone foundations, for example.
Come on students! With the Google Summer of Code you can write cool software and get payed in the summer. You’ll get contacts in [...]

What Zope did Wrong, The Movie

The videos of the talks from Plone Conference 2007 in Naples is arriving now! Here is my talk:
http://plone.tv/media/2098830919
And here is the rest of Plone Conference 2007 talks:
http://plone.tv/tagging/tags/ploneconf2007
I don’t know if all are uploaded yet, but if not they will be soon.

Great talk on Plone in the enterprise

Jared Whitlocks talk at the Plone Conference in Naples 2007 was one of my favourites, and one of the most eye-opening. I new the big commercial enterprise CMSs are extremely expensive, but I didn’t know that their (Vignette and Teamsite in this case) attitude to their customers are this bad.
Novell ended up switching to Plone, [...]

Why Python 2.6 and 3.0 compatibility would be a Very Good Thing.

This is a followup to my previous posts on the subject of Python 3 and compatibility, that even ended up on the reddit frontpage, and based on an answer to a question on the python-3000 list. The question basically is why 2to3 code conversion isn’t good enough.
The recommended path for porting Python code to [...]

PyCon debrief #2: The talks you (and I) missed

There was some complaints about the quality of the talks this year. I don’t know, I think they were at least as good as the ones at EuroPython and the Plone conference. Were they really better the years before? Or is it just that the people who complain has become more advanced, and that they [...]

PyCon debrief #1: On commercialisation

Bruce Eckel started a thread on how PyCon has been commercialized. I basically agree with what he said, but not with all of the comments. For example, Ben Finney said:
Attention of attendees is *not* a commodity to be traded.
Well, why not? That, after all, is what all kinds of advertising, including sponsorship of conferences, are [...]

Please allow u” in Python 3.0!

I’m putting together a small suite of tests of things that break in Python 3, and ways around it. Specifically, I’m trying to see if it is possible to write code that runs both in Python 2.6 and Python 3.0. The answer so far is a resounding No! But this is because only one [...]

PyCon2008: What Zope did wrong, and how it’s being fixed

I was able to cut down my talk to 25 minutes, even though I added too it, and i think it came out better. Here is the slides:

Video is supposed to arrive in some not to distant future.

Me too! Me too! (Going to PyCon, holding a talk)

I see a flood of “I’m going to PyCon now” posts, so here is mine. In one and a half hours I also leave for PyCon. First time in Chicago, third time in the states.
I’m holding a talk “What Zope did wrong”. I have held talks with the same name before, but it’s not going [...]

What’s up with Dateable?

In december I started a pledge drive to get Dateable 0.2.0 out through the door. If failed rather spectacularily in many different ways.
First of all, I’d like to thank those who chipped in: Kai Harris, Jon Stahl, Jeffrey Steele, Paul Howell, and last and most: Nate Aune, who provided a whopping 150 dollars!
But in total, [...]