The blog of the Project Fondue Team
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”
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”
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.
We've been hanging out in Paris for the weekend for a mini sprint/planning session. Naturally we made a point of getting out for Fondue which as always was pretty awesome.
One of the things we've been up to is spending some time bugfixing and putting out the v3.0 release of CSS Sprite Generator which Ed's been working on recently. Ed's added a feature for Vertical and Horizontal layout of sprites which has been requested a few times. Translations are now available via dedicated subdomains which is a distinct improvement. In addition a Russian Translation contributed by Pavel Sorokin and a Turkish Translation provided by Kerem Can Caliskan are now live.
The time in Paris gave us a time to finalise this blog and we've also planned out future changes to our architecture and systems which has been invaluable to help keep everything running smoothly whilst minimising all manual repetitive tasks to next to nothing.
We'll have plenty to talk about in the future; from the details on development of existing applications, as well as exciting things that are coming up. Most importantly for us is that this can be a two-way conversation and we look forward to hearing your thoughts, comments and suggestions on everything at Project Fondue.