I’ve been racking my brains to find something to present at PyCon 2010. I have been trying to find something good to present since PyCon 2003, when I last presented at PyCon. (I talked about Ape, the Adaptable Persistence Engine for Zope.) I really liked the experience of presenting and it led to [...]
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I have just released two versions of RelStorage. Version 1.3.0b1 adds full support for ZODB blobs stored on the filesystem. Version 1.2.0 is currently the better choice if you’re upgrading a production system and don’t need blob support.
People have been asking for blob support for months. I am glad to finally get it [...]
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Packt Publishing asked me to review their new book, Practical Plone 3: A Beginner’s Guide to Building Powerful Websites. The book impressed me, but not in the way I expected at first.
As I read the instructions in chapter two about how to install Plone, I considered the experience my Dad would have gone through if [...]
These step by step instructions describe how to install Plone on Ubuntu with RelStorage connected to MySQL as the main database. Familiarity with Linux systems administration is expected. Update: These instructions were revised in August 2009 for Plone 3.2.3 and RelStorage 1.2.0.
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I was interested in adding MySQL 5.0+ support to RelStorage, so I went ahead and did it. The code is in Subversion now.
The tests I’ve run suggest the MySQL adapter is already a lot faster than ZEO and both of the other adapters. The MySQL adapter has consistently finished the tests 40% faster [...]
I just upgraded arcutah.org to Plone 3.0 and put a new skin on it. Check it out if you have a minute. Pay special attention to the Bridge to the Future training materials; the Arc of Utah has published a great deal of information for caregivers of mentally disabled people.
I’m writing RelStorage, a new storage implementation for ZODB / Zope / Plone. RelStorage replaces PGStorage. I’ve put up a RelStorage Wiki page and the zodb-dev mailing list has been discussing it. There is no stable release yet, but a stable release is planned for this month.
While performance is not the main [...]