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Category Archives: Development

Seaside Development

I’m working on a couple of personal projects using Seaside and I’m looking into using Seaside’s impressive script.aculo.us support. Here are a couple of things I found out while digging through the Seaside mailing list:

The easiest way to get a fairly recent version of Seaside and it’s script.aculo.us support is to load Pier from [...]

TurboGears Ultimate DVD

Keven Dangoor, lead developer of the Python web framework TurboGears has come up with some interesting swag as a way to fund TurboGears development. While the toys are cool enough, the idea of a DVD that provides the “feel” of pair programming with the lead architect of a tool I use is fairly interesting. [...]

Lua

A while ago I encountered a clever little language called Lua. It’s got most of the goodies you’d expect in a dynamic scripting language and feels quite naturual if you’ve used Python/Perl/Ruby/JavaScript etc. What sets it apart in my opinion is its small size (about 200k compiled, with strategies to reduce even that) [...]

Making a Konfabulator Widget

The recent announcement that Yahoo! had acquired Pixoria the makers of Konfabulator piqued my interest in Konfabulator itself. I was vaguely aware that Tiger’s “Dashboard” had embraced and extended Konfabulator(with all that that implies) but I hadn’t actually tried Konfabulator (and my old G3 Mac certainly wasn’t going to run Tiger).The primary change triggered by [...]