Archive for the ‘python’ Category

PySM: SASL communication

So, as announced earlier, I’m working on PySM this entire day (with of course the exception of couple of relax hours etc…) As I’m going, I’m learning a lot… It’s amazing how hard simple things can be. Currently, I nearly have my SASL communication part of the server done… I’m actually excited, because that’s how [...]

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Launching: theme days

As it is vacation for me (great, great vacation) and I have a lot of stuff to catch up to (mostly school stuff), I’m going to change my life by doing some theme days. The idea is simple: Every day will have a theme. In which I try to do as much as possible around [...]

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More, more, more!

As it is, the time is constantly more limited. I need more time, lots and lots of more time (and I need to stay away from the stargate episodes ^^) In the PySM story, I’ve been assigned with developing the system core on the system. That core will (or should) organize the processes, system resources, [...]

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pySM

In light of a school project, we (me, Tim and Michel) decided to undertake a python project called the Python Server Managment. The pySM goal In pySM we aim to achieve a robust, easy-to-use and easy-to-deploy server management application. Our goals are nicely summed up as: Easy to maintain Modular Free and Open Source At [...]

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The big I’m going to fosdem post!

And, yes, undoubtedly, I’m going to fosdem next year (2009). Therefore, the next banner will be present on the website during all that time. Be there, or stop visiting codercpf.be!

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MySQLdb insert queries not working?

So, you’re here on some quest to solve an issue where you do any amount of insert queries through MySQLdb but it doesn’t appear in the database? Well, I had exactly that issue. Took me ages to figure out why after moving an app to another server (with by design the same database, except for [...]

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trac + apache + mod_fastcgi

So, as the title says, we’re going to install trac on apache using mod_fastcgi. Now, before we get off, some explanation on why I write this: As it is, I tried to follow the documentation on the official trac website. But it was unclear, and made me very confused. In the end, someone had to [...]

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Django on apache + mod_fastcgi

Today I was configuring apache(2) under mod_fastcgi to get my django project working on it. It was requested since the testing would go on a similar-to-deployment method. So, I followed the guides at djangoproject but, as it seemed, I had some issues. Some were my own problem, some were not. After fixing them, I decided [...]

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Django + AJAX

With the past project, I’ve been using django all the way. Given the requirements for that project, I judged that we were going to be needing a lot of AJAX, and I immediatelly started looking around for ways to do this. Luckily, it was found pretty quickly. The is_ajax method Conveniently enough: django provides a [...]

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Using python?

While on my quest for a proper framework, which in the end I would like to use all the time, I stumbled upon django. “Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.” This is how they describe the project. And quite correctly that is. While trying to figure [...]

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