New project: collective.poiexport

As the Plone4Artists project is moving over to using Cluemapper, I needed to move the open calendar ticket over to Trac. Of course, that would only take an hour or two, but it’s boring. So I spent two days making an export for Poi to a Trac friendly CSV format, and an import script from [...]

What Django could learn from Zope

In my talk at PyCon, I talked about the mistakes Zope did and what other web frameworks could learn from these mistakes, and how to avoid them. Since I didn’t want to point fingers on who had learned these lessons and who hadn’t I didn’t say anything during the talk, even if I mentioned it [...]

My September schedule is empty!

I came back from vacation thinking that I would be pretty well booked in September. Well….no. One project turned out to have it’s first iteration be only design, which another guy does, and another is awaiting funds, and a third one has an unclear start date, so I don’t think that is going to start [...]

Google Chrome, a stab in the back?

Google has announced that they are working on a web browser, called Chrome. They are claiming it’s a “fresh take on the browser”, which I have to disagree with. They have many ideas that are improvements that’s for sure, and I’m sure it’s going to be a great browser. And looking through their presentation, my [...]