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 [...]
At the Zope sprint held during PyCon 2009, we had a multi-day discussion about the Zope publisher. Some people were expecting a fight between Jim and me about the best way forward. So what happened? Read on!
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I have been planning to compare mod_wsgi with paste.httpserver, which Zope 3 uses by default. I guessed the improvement would be small since parsing HTTP isn’t exactly computationally intensive. Today I finally had a good chance to perform the test on a new linode virtual host.
The difference blew me away. I couldn’t believe it at [...]
I’m starting to get a sense of what publisher functionality I can put in a WSGI pipeline and what I shouldn’t.
The pipeline is very useful for specifying the order things should happen. For example, the error handling should be as early in the pipeline as possible, so it can handle many kinds of errors, but [...]
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 [...]