Topics that touch on Free/Open Source Software subject matter
My post about a Python web frameworks OpenSpace convened at CodeMash drew a bit of attention, and looking over it again, I can see how it can send messages I did not intend. In order to break my trend of sitting on posts for weeks… Read More »Mark Ramm, friend and exemplar
Over the weekend I managed to get the Time & Money project repository migrated over to Subversion. It was a fun one because the modules needed to be rearranged into the directory structure that the team had worked out. I kept a log of my… Read More »Time & Money migrated to Subversion
I wrote earlier about the apparent embrace of Domain-Driven Design (DDD) within the Interface21 team, the group behind the excellent Spring framework for Java applications. I have been thinking about why it is that Spring in particular would lend itself to the application of DDD.… Read More »Spring as an enabling technology for applied Domain-Driven Design
Having spent the better part of two days provisioning my new MacBook Pro’s OS X, Debian, and Windows XP instances, I am keenly aware of how much the Debian distribution’s package management system and its volume of packages have spoiled me. In that two days,… Read More »The missing ingredient in commercial desktop OS options; a package management system
An updated java-package will hit unstable in the next mirror pulse. Apologies to all for the delay; my discretionary time and that of my sponsors has been rather sparse for some time now. There are at least 9 bug reports addressed in the release. All… Read More »The long-overdue release of java-package 0.28
Bruce Eckel‘s writeup posted to Artima tonight. He did a good job of capturing the blow-by-blow on our progression through TurboGears.
By the end of today, I feel quite confident that TurboGears holds great potential as a productive web application framework. We went through all of the 20-Minute Wiki and TurboTunes tutorials. It would take a full-blown article to cover the stuff I’ve seen, but for… Read More »Web Frameworks Jam, Day 3
The second day of the WFJ for me was the second half of my journey up the learning curve on installing TurboGears (TG) on Debian with Python 2.3 and 2.4 installed. The predicament seems to have been that 2.3 is still the default Python version,… Read More »Web Frameworks Jam, Day 2
We kicked off the Web Frameworks Jam today, and so far it looks like another great event. We ended up sorting into three groups, one for TurboGears, one for Spring/Hibernate, and one for the Google Web Toolkit (GWT). Bruce, Dianne, and I are the TurboGears… Read More »Web Frameworks Jam, Day 1
I recently had to provision a laptop at my client’s site for my use. Certain third-party applications that are key to managing the technology practice there are Windows-only, but I (am fortunately allowed to) refuse to have a Windows-only machine. They are cool enough to… Read More »Debian Graphical Installer — excellent work, guys