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Archive for May, 2008

as part of an ongoing project to get zope3 running well on google app engine, i worked on loading python code from zipped egg files. I started by following guido’s hint in the corresponding appengine issue. As google appengine doesn’t contain the zipimport builtin extension, i relied on using the python svn sandbox code that [...]

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I published a minimal zope3 app on app engine, along the lines of what of my post from yesterday. you can check it out at http://zope3.appspot.com
its basically a minimal zope3 application, using a custom publication, and bootstraping some components via zcml.
also a simple test runner for verifying packages on the google app engine
http://zope3.appspot.com/tests
the minimal egg [...]

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a few weeks ago, i did some exploration, of getting zope3 up and running on app engine, with some discussion in a grok thread. there’s been some interest in the topic, so i wrote it up for a wider audience.
there’s a number of issues with getting zope3 up and running.
- no c extensions ( no [...]

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i released the ore.xapian package to pypi a few weeks back, and after a few iterations i’ve got in production on few small applications, its a thin layer on top of xappy to give an indexing framework for zope3 based applications.
its pretty xapian agnostic.. its designed as an async indexing framework, with abstractions for content [...]

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I’ve been working for the last year primarily on Zope3 relational applications, and have assembled various packages and practices for making them. I’ve recently begun publishing most of these packages as eggs to the cheeseshop, but I’ve had requests to give more examples of usage. 
The first part of the process constructing a relational app, i [...]

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Back to emacs

after a pair coding session with malthe borch, i decided to give emacs a more determined effort. first i culled my .emacs of a bunch of items that i had picked up from people over the years ( i think originally got most of it from jim fulton, and Ken Manheimer. Then i started hunting [...]

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