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It Looked Zope at First!

January 12th, 2010

I am still searching for tools that would allow me to do web development with Python. I was leaning toward Zope, but it looks like I will be going a different direction with WSGI. WSGI seems very lightweight or minimalist, which requires me to research template engines. Kubica’s HOWTO Use Python in the Web refers […]

Increasing Module Cohesion

November 16th, 2009

When thinking about software modules as service providers and consumers, from time to time, a situation occurs where a service provider and a consumer communicate through a common or shared buffer. In the sockets API, the consumer of a service provides the buffers from which write() sends and to which recv() receives. This can be […]

That Stuff Looks Zope!

October 2nd, 2009
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I was thinking about doing web application development using Python during my free time. It would not be something that is pressured by schedules, but it would be an opportunity to learn something new. At first, I believed that most Python web applications were implemented by using mod_python, since PHP web applications use mod_php. I […]

2009Q2 in a Word: Busy

August 16th, 2009

In a word, one could say that I have been “busy.” I was unable to find time for my blog during a whole quarter of the year. In one of those weeks, I flew from LAX to Dulles, Geneva, Paris, and Frankfurt. During another week in San Mateo, I was at the wedding of a […]

Configuring the timezone on Red Hat Linux

March 13th, 2009

I recently set up a server remotely and with much success, however I overlooked the configuration of the operating system’s timezone settings. This is typically set up during the installation of the operating system, but since the dedicated server provider performs the installation for customers, it is a step that can be easily overlooked when […]