Fortunately, others have made it easy.
http://www.bud.ca/blog/leopard-python-compile
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Can't seem to use zope debug mode anymore.
I drop out very quickly from my Mac OS X laptop running 10.5. Going to go home and try it on Ubuntu. Grrr... this is a royal pain.
Update: This was because I had a broken version of readline on my Mac. I did sudo easy_install readline and now it works.
Update: This was because I had a broken version of readline on my Mac. I did sudo easy_install readline and now it works.
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Help me with zc.testbrowser
I like zc.testbrowser. Toss in some BeautifulSoup to increase the accuracy of some tests and its a monstrously useful way to run tests. However...
For the life of me I can't get it to properly handle select fields (select or multi-select). Once I get the control, I can't seem to set select fields as selected.
Any help would be appreciated. This ate way too much of my time. What should have been a trivial test has caused me no end of frustration. The documentation is pretty good, and yet they don't seem to provide how to do this sort of thing.
In any case, once answered I plan to put the response in the zc.testbrowser reference card I am cooking up.
Update: Fixed the problem with some help from Aaron Van Derlip. Basically, since zc.testbrowser doesn't do JavaScript, sometimes you have to submit forms and links the hard way. I'll be putting that into my upcoming reference card.
For the life of me I can't get it to properly handle select fields (select or multi-select). Once I get the control, I can't seem to set select fields as selected.
Any help would be appreciated. This ate way too much of my time. What should have been a trivial test has caused me no end of frustration. The documentation is pretty good, and yet they don't seem to provide how to do this sort of thing.
In any case, once answered I plan to put the response in the zc.testbrowser reference card I am cooking up.
Update: Fixed the problem with some help from Aaron Van Derlip. Basically, since zc.testbrowser doesn't do JavaScript, sometimes you have to submit forms and links the hard way. I'll be putting that into my upcoming reference card.
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Day 2 of the 2008 Plone Conference
I was very rested by the time I arrived. I had slept well.
So you want to be a consultant by panel
No, I'm not looking to leave NASA these days. However, I do some side consulting, and even in my day job there are good project control lessons you can learn from the consulting crowd. For example, ideas on recruiting, customer relations, and how to handle billing when you need time to boost skills. There were 5 plone board members in the panel, and much wisdom was shared. Plone board members there:
He can code, he can manage, he can cycle, and he has the most awesome Irish accent, and he taught us about agile programming. And he explained why and how it works in a great fashion. I'm completely sold. I have been for some time, but he gives great arguments for it, or at least on evaluating on how to best handle this sort of thing.
Future of the Plone user experience by Alexander Limi
Limi has strong opinions and what he said may not reflect what ends up happening. He wants deliverance, strong media handling, more widgets, deliverance, better kupu, z3c form improvement, better validators, and an easier way to handle templates. All good stuff.
And he had a much, much better version of what I've been aiming at with my customer editor view in NASA Science. Great minds think alike, although I must admit his method is much better than my own.
Simplifying Plone by Martin Aspelli
He wants to do it with a chainsaw and make Plone more approachable from a developer's point of view.
Plone has a number of embarressments, with issues ranging from rich media support to import/export problems with the database. It is hard to learn and skinning is a challenge. He thanked Lennart for pointing out what Zope did wrong, and how developers expect things to be easy.
Wants to revamp much for Plone 4. Some quick bullets:
Yes! I helped present!
So we presented and apparently did very well. We had a few luminaries in the room, including a couple Plone board members. I think we nailed all the points we wanted to make, which was a very awesome thing to do. We plan to send the slides off to Alex Clark shortly so we can have them on line for everyone to see.
Please go to NASA Science and leave feedback asking to release Umlizer to the world!
Evening Agile Development workshop by Mike Robinson
Two more hours of the awesome Mike Robinson ended the day for me. He gave a rock-solid lecture and then we played a game to support his statements. It was a fun game and learning was had by all. That said, I think this would have been better done as part of a day-long class, not at the end of a long day of conferencing.
General Socializing
Where to begin? I had great fun with so many incredibly awesome people. The quick and dirty list:
So you want to be a consultant by panel
No, I'm not looking to leave NASA these days. However, I do some side consulting, and even in my day job there are good project control lessons you can learn from the consulting crowd. For example, ideas on recruiting, customer relations, and how to handle billing when you need time to boost skills. There were 5 plone board members in the panel, and much wisdom was shared. Plone board members there:
- Nate Atune
- Gaer Baekholt
- Calvin Hendryx-Parker
- Jon Stahl
- Matt Hamilton
He can code, he can manage, he can cycle, and he has the most awesome Irish accent, and he taught us about agile programming. And he explained why and how it works in a great fashion. I'm completely sold. I have been for some time, but he gives great arguments for it, or at least on evaluating on how to best handle this sort of thing.
Future of the Plone user experience by Alexander Limi
Limi has strong opinions and what he said may not reflect what ends up happening. He wants deliverance, strong media handling, more widgets, deliverance, better kupu, z3c form improvement, better validators, and an easier way to handle templates. All good stuff.
And he had a much, much better version of what I've been aiming at with my customer editor view in NASA Science. Great minds think alike, although I must admit his method is much better than my own.
Simplifying Plone by Martin Aspelli
He wants to do it with a chainsaw and make Plone more approachable from a developer's point of view.
Plone has a number of embarressments, with issues ranging from rich media support to import/export problems with the database. It is hard to learn and skinning is a challenge. He thanked Lennart for pointing out what Zope did wrong, and how developers expect things to be easy.
Wants to revamp much for Plone 4. Some quick bullets:
- Follow the guiding lights shown by some of the other Python web frameworks.
- Make learning follow a constant set of humps, not huge ones followed by a plateau followed by an insurmountable wall.
- make certain things real easy to do (logo, branding, content types, etc)
- Create one true way and remove the other ways
- embrace through the web but allow filesystem round-trip for deployment and collaboration
Yes! I helped present!
So we presented and apparently did very well. We had a few luminaries in the room, including a couple Plone board members. I think we nailed all the points we wanted to make, which was a very awesome thing to do. We plan to send the slides off to Alex Clark shortly so we can have them on line for everyone to see.
Please go to NASA Science and leave feedback asking to release Umlizer to the world!
Evening Agile Development workshop by Mike Robinson
Two more hours of the awesome Mike Robinson ended the day for me. He gave a rock-solid lecture and then we played a game to support his statements. It was a fun game and learning was had by all. That said, I think this would have been better done as part of a day-long class, not at the end of a long day of conferencing.
General Socializing
Where to begin? I had great fun with so many incredibly awesome people. The quick and dirty list:
- Vernon Chapman
- Tarek Zaide
- Alex Clark
- Amy Clark
- Matt Bowen
- Jon Stahl
- Nate Aune
- Katie Cunningham
- Gary Burner
- Joel Burton
- My whole agile development "team"
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Day 1 of the 2008 Plone Conference
The 2008 Plone conference actually started on Wednesday, and Monday and Tuesday were training days. I'll be blogging about those later. Unlike the last conference, set in Italy, this is set here in Washington, DC. Since I am not being a tourist, I'm doing most of my posts here in my technical blog.
First off, Tuesday I had suffered from my periodic insomnia the night before so this day was a matter of a lot of water, light eating, and trying to keep cool in order to keep myself alert.
Registration
I had volunteered to work the registration desk as part of my effort to contribute to the conference. I arrived at 7 am. Others followed shortly and soon enough plonistas began to arrive. In no special order I got to meet or badge the following people:
I drifting a little in and out, but mostly I was focused on the registration. I figured I could just catch up on plone.tv. Not perfectly ideal, but volunteering is good for the soul. ;) Then it was off to the talks!
Feed the Masses by Paul Bugni
This was about Vice a Plone 3.x syndication tool that lets you output types in RSS 2.0, Atom, and even RSS 1.0. It handles recursions and enclosures and much more. It looks like a wonderful tool for our efforts, but its not quite yet production ready. I may spring on it.
I like the Zope Component Architecture approach! Awesome!
I played timer guy for the nefarious Matt Bowen.
Theming a Plone Site from Start to Finish by Rob Porter
Rob Porter of WebLion presented on material I had just taken a 2 day class on, so in retrospect I should not have gone. On the other hand, I got a few gems and perhaps getting a reinforcement on the class was good. Again I played timer guy for the nefarious Matt Bowen.
Software in the Cloud Speech violates freedom by Bradley Kuhn
Awesome speech! The cloud is dangerous, because really, who own our emails and twits when we use gmail and twitter?
Usability by Ginger Butcher and Katie Cunningham
I did not go but visited. I have to say that I was impressed watching those two for just a few minutes. They NAILED it. They talked well, energetically, knew their material, gave good examples, and were having as much fun as two little girls in a sand box. They did an awesome job and got kudos from Alexander Limi himself.
First off, Tuesday I had suffered from my periodic insomnia the night before so this day was a matter of a lot of water, light eating, and trying to keep cool in order to keep myself alert.
Registration
I had volunteered to work the registration desk as part of my effort to contribute to the conference. I arrived at 7 am. Others followed shortly and soon enough plonistas began to arrive. In no special order I got to meet or badge the following people:
- Ian Bicking
- Martin Aspelli
- Alexander Limi
- Bradley Kuhn
- Tres Seaver
- Nate Aune
- John Stahl
- Most of the KSS team
- Emma Campbell
- JoAnna Springsteen
- Steve?
- Paul Boos
- Amy Clark
- Matt Bowen
I drifting a little in and out, but mostly I was focused on the registration. I figured I could just catch up on plone.tv. Not perfectly ideal, but volunteering is good for the soul. ;) Then it was off to the talks!
Feed the Masses by Paul Bugni
This was about Vice a Plone 3.x syndication tool that lets you output types in RSS 2.0, Atom, and even RSS 1.0. It handles recursions and enclosures and much more. It looks like a wonderful tool for our efforts, but its not quite yet production ready. I may spring on it.
I like the Zope Component Architecture approach! Awesome!
I played timer guy for the nefarious Matt Bowen.
Theming a Plone Site from Start to Finish by Rob Porter
Rob Porter of WebLion presented on material I had just taken a 2 day class on, so in retrospect I should not have gone. On the other hand, I got a few gems and perhaps getting a reinforcement on the class was good. Again I played timer guy for the nefarious Matt Bowen.
Software in the Cloud Speech violates freedom by Bradley Kuhn
Awesome speech! The cloud is dangerous, because really, who own our emails and twits when we use gmail and twitter?
Usability by Ginger Butcher and Katie Cunningham
I did not go but visited. I have to say that I was impressed watching those two for just a few minutes. They NAILED it. They talked well, energetically, knew their material, gave good examples, and were having as much fun as two little girls in a sand box. They did an awesome job and got kudos from Alexander Limi himself.
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Plone Conference 2008 starts tomorrow!
I posted my bit of melancholy about the location on my personal blog under the ploneconf2008 label. Expect to see my more technical side here under my pydanny ploneconf2008 label. Hope that makes sense!
What will I be doing there? Let me see...
First two days will be Joel Burton's class on Plone Theming. Why theming? Because our team needs more skill in it!
I'll be volunteering to help out with the conference in the role of registration helper and general gopher.
I'll be helping our NASA Science team present on our big project, NASA Science!
I'll be attending talks and taking notes until my fingers bleed.
I'll be working in sprints.
I'm not sure about my social activities. We have a tight house budget.
What will I be doing there? Let me see...
First two days will be Joel Burton's class on Plone Theming. Why theming? Because our team needs more skill in it!
I'll be volunteering to help out with the conference in the role of registration helper and general gopher.
I'll be helping our NASA Science team present on our big project, NASA Science!
I'll be attending talks and taking notes until my fingers bleed.
I'll be working in sprints.
I'm not sure about my social activities. We have a tight house budget.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Why did we use Plone for nasascience.nasa.gov?
I've had a few questions over time as to some of the specifics about http://nasascience.nasa.gov and I'm going to start providing answers. Here we go with the first question...
Way back on August 7th, John Kavanaugh asked:
On to answers!
First off, from what I understand, the Science Mission Directorate (SMD) started developing the Plone version of http://nasascience.nasa.gov before the portal was announced internally at NASA. By the time eTouch became known, we were well down the path of development, including integrating 1200+ articles and images. For various reasons the new portal launched first.
Second, SMD had a lot of very precise requirements and wanted to be able to get a lot of specific customizations to the project. Adding into the fact that we had already started on data migration and site design, and SMD felt that staying the course was the right way to go.
Third, and this comes from the business people, the portal project and our project come from two pools of money. The portal's pool is for providing a gateway for the public into NASA, and our pool is providing a gateway to Science at NASA. These are similiar yet different concepts, and allows each group to focus on what they do best. We link to each other, and that makes perfect sense.
Fourth, we are working with the Portal group to improve NASA Science. They are great folks and we applaud their work! I can't go into specific details into what we'll be doing but I will state that most of it is infrastructure and support.
Way back on August 7th, John Kavanaugh asked:
Why didn't NASA use the eTouch CMS that the rest of NASA's portal runs on?To explain what John is talking about, he means the NASA portal (http://www.nasa.gov), which is based on the commercial Java based CMS called eTouch. The portal contains a lot of content, and also serves as a nexus for the myriad of NASA sites hosted by various NASA centers (JPL, Goddard, etc) and organizations (Science Mission Directorate, Space Operations, etc).
On to answers!
First off, from what I understand, the Science Mission Directorate (SMD) started developing the Plone version of http://nasascience.nasa.gov before the portal was announced internally at NASA. By the time eTouch became known, we were well down the path of development, including integrating 1200+ articles and images. For various reasons the new portal launched first.
Second, SMD had a lot of very precise requirements and wanted to be able to get a lot of specific customizations to the project. Adding into the fact that we had already started on data migration and site design, and SMD felt that staying the course was the right way to go.
Third, and this comes from the business people, the portal project and our project come from two pools of money. The portal's pool is for providing a gateway for the public into NASA, and our pool is providing a gateway to Science at NASA. These are similiar yet different concepts, and allows each group to focus on what they do best. We link to each other, and that makes perfect sense.
Fourth, we are working with the Portal group to improve NASA Science. They are great folks and we applaud their work! I can't go into specific details into what we'll be doing but I will state that most of it is infrastructure and support.
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