Category archives: Snaking

TurboGears uses the Paste commands system to create command-line entry points that, for example, set up your database or start your server.  When you get to larger projects, however, you will often have other things you need to do "in the context of your application" from the command line, such as periodic imports of data, ...

Spent most of the day playing with TurboGears Authentication/Authorization system.  In particular, I stripped out the "quickstart" configuration and created a "who.ini" based almost-equivalent.  With that, I added an OpenID provider using a repoze plugin... at the end of all that, I can log into my localhost quickstart application with a myopenid.com login.  I've documented ...

PostgreSQL 8.3+ has integrated the old tsearch2 plugin into the distribution.  This lets you do very formal "stemmed" textual queries on a body of text (set of columns in a table).  For instance, imagine we have a table "version_text" that stores all of the text in our version control system in the "text" column.  We ...

Was just playing around with implementing "Brian's Brain" in Numpy/Pygame it's a "life" style automata where there are just 3 rules:

• if cell is dying, cell dies
• if cell is alive, cell starts dying
• if cell is dead and > 2 neighbours are on, cell becomes alive

there was a post about doing this in ...

Spent almost the whole day today on the TurboGears 2.x documentation sprint.  I wound up just wading in and focusing on bringing a single document "up to spec" as it were.  I have an itch to sit down and try to restructure the whole hive of documents.

Along the way had to learn the basics ...

So you've browsed the ToscaWidgets web-site and know that there's a JQuery Plugin and a TinyMCE (Rich-text-editor control) plugin... now how the heck do you use them?  Not a lot of documentation for these two pieces, so I've tried to cobble together a minimal example.  Fair warning, I'm piecing this together basically without any documentation ...

Continuing on from our previous tutorial, here's a quick example showing how to create a Flot plotting library plot using tw.jquery's FlotWidget class.  In our root.py controller module, we'll import the widget and some support functions:

from tw.jquery import FlotWidget
from math import sin,cos
import simplejson

The FlotWidget is part of the core tw.jquery support, ...

Continuing my explorations of JQuery + TurboGears today, I started working on a simple RTE-light wrapper widget.  RTE-light is an extremely small, simple analogue to TinyMCE, so I figured it would be easy to set it up with the tw.tinymce project as reference.

There's a paster script to auto-start a widget project, so that went ...

I wanted to code up a single-form application for updating/editing the PyGTA events.  Since it runs on Vex and I didn't want to bother them with setting up per-user WSGIs or TurboGears for me (they do give me the space free, after all), I went with bald CGI.

Wow.

I've written very large CGI-only systems ...

We had a lively PyGTA this evening on the topic of concurrency.  After which I put out a call for those who are interested in helping setup and teach (low-cost) courses on Python.

Our first course looks to be an Introduction to Django, likely on a Saturday in early November, taught by a consultant who ...