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Viewing Large Images – OpenLayers, GSIV, ModestMaps, DeepZoom, and Python

An exploration of techniques and tools to display large images via the browser, and a python tile cutter for Deep Zoom images. Continue reading

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Zipped Eggs on AppEngine

guido posted a work around to the issue of making zipped eggs work on appengine. Cool! forward z3 on gae http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=161

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Zipped Packages on App Engine :-(

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 … Continue reading

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Zope3 on App Engine – Redux

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 … Continue reading

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Zope3 on Google App Engine

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. … Continue reading

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ore.xapian – indexing and searching in zope3

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 … Continue reading

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Zope3 Relational Apps – Part one ditch the ZODB

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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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Python Code Completion

Working with large code bases like Zope and Plone can quickly give your hands a workout. I’ve been looking around for some good python completion tools that i can use directly from textmate or emacs. the critical comparison test for … Continue reading

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In search of an editor/IDE

I’ve been a long time emacs user, my personal search for better development environments, has taken me across a host of tools, from eclipse, and nano to others. While i’ll continue to use emacs on occassion. I’ve finally settled on … Continue reading

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