http://www.devpicayune.com picayune: of little value or importance Tue, 03 Jun 2008 08:08:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So after hearing about CherryPy's WSGI server while at PyCon (I went to the Pylons/TG2 classes), I decided, like others have, to see if I could host a Django site with it here where I work. There are several references out there about using that server code with Django, ... http://www.devpicayune.com/entry/hosting-django-with-cherrypy-wsgi-server Okay, very weird problem today. I am not sure what to make of it... when using the latest version of MySQLdb (1.2.2.final.0) which is the version in Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy, I am getting an "incomplete format" error when performing an executemany. My variables are presented as a list ... http://www.devpicayune.com/entry/mysqldb-and-executemany-error-incomplete-format So just as a bookmark to myself, I wanted to document what all I was working on from a technical perspective. On the work front, I've recently deployed a Django app that folks are just totally loving. It's actually a hacked together group of scripts to import data and export ... http://www.devpicayune.com/entry/projects-pycon-and-life I've finally gotten tired of my poor little blog getting attacked by spammers. Actually, it was just one in particular and I know I could've done some IP blocking or added to the protection scheme on my comments, but rather than working more on Pumpkinvine, I've now switched to ... http://www.devpicayune.com/entry/more-blog-housekeeping (now updated with some pointless Python code) This is perfect for this little blog concerned with trivial and small things. I noticed that my Peanuts calendar on my desk is essentially a reproduction of the 1990 calendar. Obviously, they all have to be reproductions because Charles Schulz died ... http://www.devpicayune.com/entry/200708271353 Brandon and I were exchanging emails the other day about the state of Python IDE's and specifically about IDE support for GUI's. My thought was that while nearly every distribution of Python has Tkinter with it, it's just so impotent that despite being included it's not really the ... http://www.devpicayune.com/entry/200708120044 If you're using Linux at all and need ODBC access to data sources, you've basically got two choices for Python library access, mxODBC and pyodbc. And really, until recently, pyodbc wasn't really strongly considered a Linux option. In fact, even today, it's not very Linux friendly to ... http://www.devpicayune.com/entry/200707181242 Thanks to a 'Security Breach' at DreamHost, my 2+ sites were hijacked. Obviously have things running again, but this issue points out several things. FTP is not very secure (as if we didn't know that). Running PHP, while convenient because everyone runs it, is also a dangerous ... http://www.devpicayune.com/entry/200706090317 I found myself needing to do a fairly complicated thing. Well, it's not complicated, but for a DOS batch file, it seemed complicated. The problem I was facing: to insert some "official" DOS command stuff into a .bat file that is run on all computers in our ... http://www.devpicayune.com/entry/200705151708 Since there seems to be virtually nothing Twisted or Nevow related going on at PyCon, I thought (last minute I know) that I would at least try to organize a BoF meeting (most likely pretty informal) for folks into Twisted and Nevow. So if you are interested, please add ... http://www.devpicayune.com/entry/200702201208