The blog of the Project Fondue Team
Making a development environment as close to the what's used in production is always a good plan, as it helps to catch issues earlier as you develop. The following details the way we are using apache in the development of a current side-project.
Read the full post on “Using Apache in a Python Development Environment”
Here's a really simple way of getting a notification when your disk space is running low by using a simple Python script in a cron job.
The idea is to configure a script with a threshold at which point if your free disk space is less that "n" percent you'll get an email telling you that you're running low on disk space.
Read the full post on “Getting an Early Warning of Low Disk Space”
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.
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.
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.