Archive for 2009/05

  • zerokspot v6

    Just a short notice to assure you, that you are on the right website ;-) For some time now I've wanted to rewrite this site to be a bit more maintainable in the future. The first iteration of zerokspot with Django was more or less also my first site with it, so it mostly became a playground and eventually just a pure mess ;-)

    ... not that I believe for a second that this version won't end up that way too ;-)

    For the next couple of days this site will probably still be a bit of a building site, but if you find a broken link or something like that, please let me know, anyway :-)

    2009/05/02 at 13:38:00

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  • Deutsches Übersetzungsprojekt für die offzielle Django-Dokumentation

    So großartig die offizielle Django-Dokumentation auch ist, es wäre manchmal hilfreich, wenn sie auch auf Deutsch verfügbar wäre. Sei es, weil man sichergehen möchte, dass man ein Konzept wirklich verstanden hat oder auch nur, um Personen ohne guten Englischkenntnissen dein Einstieg zu erleichtern.

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    2009/05/04 at 09:10:00

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  • Wie konvertiert man die deutschen Django-Docs nach HTML?

    Wenn du die deutschsprachige Django-Docs verwenden möchtest, ist das leider noch nicht so einfach, wie es sein sollte. Ich arbeite daran, aber in der Zwischenzeit soll dir diese kurze Anleitung dabei helfen, den ganzen Prozess trotzdem ohne größere Frustration zu überstehen.

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    2009/05/04 at 14:55:00

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  • MercurialRecipe

    Primary link: pypi.python.org

    A couple of months ago I wrote a small zc.buildout-recipe to allow the integration of data from some git repository into your workspace. Now I needed mostly the same functionality but for a Mercurial repository. Luckily, Tim Molendijk created a small recipe just for that available in the PyPI. Since the README isn't really included there, you probably also want to take a look at the project's repository on Bitbucket.

    To use it, simply configure a part like this:

    [django.piston]
recipe = mercurialrecipe
repository = http://bitbucket.org/jespern/django-piston/

    As with my git-recipe it supports the newest option (globally and locally) to prevent the repository from getting pulled every time you update the environment and it sets the location-part-variable so that you can access the data you just pulled.

    Really nice stuff. Thanks Tim.

    2009/05/06 at 12:10:00

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  • EuroDjangoCon 2009

    Well, that's it. EuroDjangoCon 2009 in Prague is over and most of us are on their way home right now, already there or will leave tomorrow. For me, tech conferences are just great. There is always so much new stuff to learn, on so many cool projects to work on and so many really nice and clever people to meet with. And then just imagine a conference in the name of the Pony in Prague with its beautiful old-town, low prices, great beer and subbed American movies. A perfect match.

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    2009/05/10 at 00:25:18

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  • Star Trek

    Right on the last day of EuroDjangoCon 09 a small group of brave Djangonauts ordered a couple of tickets and went to downtown Prague to find strange new cinemas and watch the new Star Trek movie by J. J. Adams. At first I wasn't really sure what to expect from that movie, but it turned out to be a complete suprise :D

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    2009/05/11 at 22:25:43

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  • Google announced more support for semantic metadata

    Primary link: googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com

    After companies like Yahoo and Technorati have no experimented for quite some time with support for Microformats, Google announced their own support for some Microformat and RDFa vocabularies. According to James Turner of the O'Reilly Radar this only works for a handful of partner-sites right now but, I guess, this should only be a matter of time. For now the supported metadata is about product reviews, product prices and personal details. Google's made some more details available in their documentation.

    What's in my opinion really nice about this is, that Google supports not just one encoding but Microformats and RDFa. If you ask 3 people how to handle metadata on the web, you'll probably get 3 different answers ;-)

    2009/05/14 at 00:04:16

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  • Git and Mercurial branchname in PS1

    Primary link: vc.gerg.ca

    If you're working with version control systems like Mercurial, Git or SVN (if you must) and there with multiple branches, it's sometimes really hard to keep track of what branch you're currently in. There are a couple of utilities out there that help you integrate that information in your shell's prompt, but most of them are limited to just one versioning system. Gred Ward's vcprompt is different in this regard since it supports Git, Mercurial and some other system I don't want to name here ;-) And it is really fast :D

    [via www.mahner.org]

    2009/05/14 at 12:18:34

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  • Hidden subscription link on Google Groups

    Primary link: groups.google.com

    It's strange. When you visit a Google Group and are not logged into your Google Account (if you even have one) you might get the impression that you cannot join that group. If you're already a member of such a group, you've perhaps noticed that you can unsubscribe from it using a <groupname>+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com email address. At first I thought replacing "unsubscribe" with "subscribe" would allow me to join <groupname>, but for some reason Google didn't stick to that pattern. Instead it's <groupname>-subscribe@googlegroups.com ...

    Why such a link isn't shown on each group page is beyond me, but at least it is hidden in the the documentation.

    2009/05/19 at 01:16:14

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  • Ivy: A dependency manager for Java

    Primary link: ant.apache.org

    In whatever language you are programming you eventually end up in a situation where you are working with so many libraries that you need to manage them somehow. Up until a couple of days ago, I used Maven for this when dealing with Java. But Maven might be a bit more than what you normally want. It not only manages dependencies but also comes with its own project life-cycle management system. You can use Maven for compiling, testing, deploying, generating the documentation, publishing it on a website, and so on. But at least for me, all I normally want is a simple build system. If it has some nice extras, fine, but I don't really like to be forced in some kind of life-cycle management. So basically give me something like Make or Ant and then give me something that manages dependencies. This is more or less how I discovered Ivy.

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    2009/05/31 at 23:08:08

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