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Awkly Mark Hammond just shown me a screenshot of Python and XUL. That’s right, Python used as scripting language on our most beloved browser to create XUL interfaces. I am so excited about it that I couldn’t keep it to myself and thought it would be nice to share with you.
Hot on the heels of previous announcements, one of the points raised in my previous post has turned stronger. Microsoft has just released the MSDN Library as a freeHot on the heels of previous announcements, one of the points raised in my previous post has turned stronger. Microsoft has just released the MSDN Library as a free download. Yay! …
I’ve spent most of the weekend trying to compile the python-ldap extension on MinGW. It’s not a trivial task no. It appears that I’ve got surprisingly close to have it working. Well, actually it looks like it might just work with some minor fiddling but I really wanted to avoid this fiddling. The problem I’m …
For people looking for a way to compile extensions for Python 2.4, there’s this page with some instructions on the bits needed. Contrary to what the page says though, you don’t need to hack your distutils install to get it to work. You just need to provide the registry keys that distutils is looking for. To do so, you …
Read moreCompiling Python 2.4 Extensions With Microsoft VC Toolkit 2003
A very interesting announcement from Microsoft today. I’ve been following some of their moves lately and have a gut feeling that Microsoft is preparing some kind of ‘take over’ plan. My opinion is that they are doing a silent revolution. Instead of going head to head with Linux and Apple they are making small steps towards releasing …
Never thought I would say that, but I must confess. I’ve learned to enjoy Windows, thanks to Mark Hammond and the great stuff he does with Python on Windows.Here’s an email I’ve sent recently to the zope-dev mailing list, I thought it would be cool to share it: On Wed, Andreas Jung wrote: | >I’ll repeat or …
Reading Joel’s article yesterday, and then the MapReduce paper I was left wondering if Python could take advantage of this. Python has a feet in functional programing, and indeed has several functional-style erm… functions like map, reduce, filter etc. I’m a big fan of those little misunderstood beasties. I, too, was lamenting the proposal to remove those function, and was not quite convinced …
Hi all. (Update: Please use the nightly builds instead.) I’ve fixed the last one or two serious issues and have now a working installer for Plone 2.5 beta 2 using Zope 2.9 (except the installer still says beta 1). If the brave folks running Windows out there can give it a try and report back any issues, I would …
Read moreExperimental Plone 2.5 beta 2 installer with Zope 2.9