Olemis' blog

@Wandisco sponsors Bloodhound, a fork of Trac

2011-12-05T21:05:00.000-08:00

Even if you still don't know, it is a fact that I'm a convinced Python advocate and developer. I like programming and I also think that Trac is one of the most well-designed systems out there. I have implemented some plugins myself (hope you like them ;). Besides it's pretty famous and there are countless online installations . Nonetheless in the last few years its development was not

TuxInfo - Introduction to functional programming in Python

2011-08-30T09:51:00.000-07:00

Recently I wrote (together with Arnau Sánchez) an article on functional programming in Python. It's been published by TuxInfo magazine. This is the most recent of a series pursuing the goal of introducing starters to the art of programming in Python, and very particularly to illustrate language support for multiple programming paradigms. All of you interested on subjects related to

Appeartowork - Use Facebook while you appear to work

2011-07-10T19:03:00.000-07:00

Some days ago, the 8th of July 2011 at 21:00 h (more or less ;o) I could finally deploy the web site Appeartowork . The underlying idea is simple: let users access their Facebook accounts while they appear to work. Nowadays there are three flavours. Firstly there's a skin similar to MS Word. Everybody will be wondering what kind of report you'll be writing ;o). On the other hand it's also

On adding AMF (RPC) support for Trac

2010-04-15T11:39:00.000-07:00

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Another important milestone. Few months after Odd Simon Simonsen invited me to help in developing the very successful and useful plugin TracXmlRpc plugin, and few days after implementing Hessian support for Trac, it's time to focus on Action Message Format. Yes ! Things move fast because it's so easy. Action Message Format is a binary protocol designed by

On adding Hessian (RPC) support for Trac

2010-03-05T07:30:00.000-08:00

Image via Wikipedia Yesterday was a historical date. In the morning I finally could request the data managed by a Trac instance via Hessian RPC. The whole story ? Well ... Few months ago Odd Simon Simonsen invited me to participate and send patches to the very popular and successful XmlRpcPlugin. In order to do that he cloned the SVN repository using Hgsvn, published its contents at Bitbucket

TracGViz plugin downloaded more than 1000 times (> 300 from PyPI)

2010-01-21T08:42:00.000-08:00

Among the Trac plugins I've implemented so far TracGViz has an special place. Recently, this module has surpassed the 300 downloads from PyPI. This is only a fraction of the total because it is possible to download it from Softpedia (518 downloads for Mac and 203 downloads for Linux) and from WareSeeker (12 downloads). In total 1055 downloads have been made, considering the 322 from PyPI. But

Assessment of unittest 2.7 API : new features and opinions

2009-12-21T11:38:00.000-08:00

Yesterday I found the time to review the new features introduced in unittest module for Python 2.7a. In this post I will mention what's new and express my opinion about the current semantics of the decorators included in there. I invite you to discover the reasons that make me think that they may be confusing. Perhaps you will agree with me that some enhacements will be very helpul or,

Gasol in for Spain: they lead european basket

2009-10-16T06:51:00.000-07:00

Image by lubright via Flickr Gasol, the big brother, he is a tremendous success almost paranormal. He has suction pads in his fingers and his opponents know that he hypnotizes the ball. Like a magnet, he always intercepts it before reaching the net. Who can even dare to put the ball into the basket? And you better don't do it, otherwise he goes to your own field, makes you look silly and

More than 300 downloads for dutest module

2009-09-24T10:12:00.001-07:00

¿Have you ever noticed how fast children become men and women? Of course you have ! And I consider that my FOSS projects are just like my children. Their goal is that everybody be able to be more efficient and happy. Hence I wanted to share with you this glorious moment: users have downloaded dutest more than 300 times. Isn't it wonderful ? I know, I know ... I have only written a very

More than 100 downloads for dutest module

2009-09-08T11:10:00.001-07:00

December 24th 2008 I realized that dutest module reached 100 downloads from PyPI. This unexpected news, inspired me to write mini-tutorial entries in order to explain how to use it under different circumstances. In those articles you will be able to discover all the cool features it supports in order to enhance the integration between the two standard testing frameworks written for Python.