Since few weeks i’ve been working on the next generation of this blog’s engine : Alinea3. While Alinea 2 was powered by Webware and ZPT, Alinea3 uses Quixote and Cheetah.

The database schema remained quite the same, except for the Roles layer which was added to provide a flow-engine-like …

Yeehah i found a new way to burn my Firefox profile … upgrading extensions. Very nice huh ? Here is the outter-space-sticky-bottom-bar new firefox extension from hell:

You won’t be able to live without it :)

In a previous post i was discussing about PyRXP .. Now i’m playing with PyRXPU which aims to PyRXP with Unicode support … But, i’m not sure to understand the crap strings it returns:

>>> import pyRXPU
>>> pyRXPU.version
'1.05'
>>> doc = pyRXPU.Parser().parse('<foo>Bar</foo>')
>>> doc
(u'\U006f0066o …

It’s been long to find the mail checker of my dreams. Embrace is a little E17 application which can monitor pop,imap(s),etc mailboxes. Currently, 0.0.1 version displays read/unread mail number per mailbox, that suits my needs for the moment :-)

Also, Debian sid users may …

I wanted to insert legends directly in images instead of displaying them below respective images. ImageMagick can do that (Text directive) but it’s not smart enough to make the legend always visible, even in dark images (if the legend color is black). So i used this script to accomplish …

Well, doing the same as Simon and Andrew, i get these results:

1. Python News
2. Recipes from the Python Cookbook
3. Google Weblog
4. Deadly Bloody Serious About Python
5. PyPI recent updates
6. online.effbot.org
7. Ian Bicking: A Blog
8. Slashdot
9. Jkx@Home
10. The Law Of Unintended Consequences

Interesting, though i’m wondering how …

Are you happy with your christmas presents ? Were you a good boy/girl during 2004 year ? I have one more for those of you who don’t have a GMail account yet :)

A GMail invite for first 10 comment posts on this article. Don’t forget to supply an email …

PyRXP claims to be the fastest Python XML parser around… but this has a price. Once XML is parsed, you get a tree structured as tuples, lists and dictionnaries. While this is very Pythonic, it’s not so trivial to write/read code handling such a tree.

People at Reportlab …

I use to deal with large files under the console (copying iso images, videos) but cp doesn’t display much informations. Few days ago i read a post from Richard Jones who wrote a very nice iterator aimed to display ETA informations about tasks on the console. So, here comes …

In a previous post, i was discussing about Project name clashing. Since then i decided to find a new name for the Python/XML data binding project i’m maintaining … Which is EaseXML !

EaseXML 0.2.0 is out. I hope it won’t collapse with another project now :)

update …