Follow us on Twitter
Latest Tweet: New blog post on raw roles allowing arbitrary html in docutils < 0.6 http://blog.projectfondue.com/2010/7/27/security-raw-roles-in-docutils

L'Alpiniste

The blog of the Project Fondue Team

Python script for Text Link Ads

written by Ed Eliot, on 01 October, 2009 at 18:31.

We've been using Text Link Ads (TLA) on some of our sites for a while now. It's a great service which allows publishers to sell sponsored links on their sites and has helped us pay our hosting bills to date. Once signed up you include sponsored links on your site via a server side script which they provide. They provide a number of different solutions - for common blogging platforms including Wordpress and Movable Type as well as straight PHP. Unfortunately they don't provide a solution for use with any other language so our use of Python restricted our use of the service.

Read the full post on “Python script for Text Link Ads”

Google Chrome Frame — good or bad for the web?

written by Stuart Colville, on 23 September, 2009 at 13:05.

Google Chrome Frame is a plugin released by Google designed to provide the Google Chrome Browser engine inside of a frame in IE 6,7 and 8.

Read the full post on “Google Chrome Frame — good or bad for the web?”

Apache: Moving from prefork to worker

written by Stuart Colville, on 25 August, 2009 at 23:53.

In this post I look at the results of moving our Apache from mpm-prefork to mpm-worker for Python based web-apps in an attempt to reduce memory usage.

Read the full post on “Apache: Moving from prefork to worker”

CSS Sprite Generator v4.0 available on Launchpad

written by Ed Eliot, on 05 August, 2009 at 19:25.

We've recently released the source code for version 4 of our CSS sprite generator.

We've done a fair amount of restructuring, fixed a few bugs and added an important new feature - the ability to generate sprites with their component images stacked in horizontal or vertical orientation.

Read the full post on “CSS Sprite Generator v4.0 available on Launchpad”

Raclette: Web App Utils for Python

written by Stuart Colville, on 12 July, 2009 at 12:00.

Something I've been working on for a while is consolidating the set of utilities that are used on our Python based sites. To start with this code was just a set of basic libraries that we've used alongside web.py.

It quickly became clear that this was something that could have more of a life of it's own. We've been finding WSGI to be a great thing for web application development because having a clear specification means that building apps and middlewares are far likely to be uttilsed because it doesn't matter which Python framework you use, whether it's a lightweight framework, Django, Pylons.

Read the full post on “Raclette: Web App Utils for Python”