L'Alpiniste

We've recently started using Loggerhead for branch browsing as the redmine support for bazaar is a little lacking. We also wanted to provide a way to expose our open-source projects to the world.

Read the full post: “Loggerhead and mod_wsgi”

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: “Google Chrome Frame — good or bad for the web?”

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: “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: “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.

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