W3C Developer Meetup in Lyon
This is a bit last minute, but I’m giving a talk tonight in the Lyon city hall for the W3C Developer Meetup.
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Who wants to maintain Flask-FlatPages?
I stopped using Flask-FlatPages on this site and I most likely won’t work on it anymore. Anyone wants to take over and maintain the project?
Invited Expert at W3C’s CSSWG
I just joined W3C’s CSS Working Group as an Invited Expert.
WeasyPrint at PyConFR 2012
I’ll be giving a talk about WeasyPrint at PyConFR on Sunday.
Flask-WeasyPrint
I just released Flask-WeasyPrint
tinycss: a new CSS parser for Python
I made tinycss, a new free software CSS parser for Python. It is extensible, well-documented, well-tested and fast. It replaces cssutils in both WeasyPrint and CairoSVG.
WeasyPrint is now BSD-licensed
We just changed WeasyPrint’s license from AGPL to BSD.
I’m going to FOSDEM
I’m going to FOSDEM this week-end. See you there!
Hashing passwords the Right Way
Don’t store passwords in plain text. Don’t use a fast algorithm. And don’t forget the salt.
Multicorn: Access foreign data in PostgreSQL with Python
We just released Multicorn. It enables you to write Foreign Data Wrappers for PostgreSQL in Python. Any data source can be exposed as a table and queried with full SQL.
WeasyPrint renders HTML+CSS to PDF
The project I’ve been working on in the past few months has finally reached an usable state and has gotten a public release! See weasyprint.org
Run a script on file changes with inotify
Have a script (eg. your test suite) run automatically every time a file changes.
Two Gedit 3 plugins packaged for Arch Linux
I just packaged for Arch Linux the Gedit Whitespace Terminator and Gedit Source Code Browser plugins for Gedit 3. You can find them in the AUR.
virtualenv HOWTO
Slides for an introduction to virtualenv and pip I gave recently.
Poor man’s NTP
How to synchronize a Linux computer’s clock when NTP doesn’t work.
Mirroring a Gitorious repository to GitHub
You can not make Gitorious or GitHub push to somewhere else, so mirroring them requires a few more steps.
Single-threaded event loop for file input and timers
To wait for various events and without polling, a blocking threads for each event is the obvious solution. However, multi-threading comes with its pitfalls and problems. Here we are going to see how to build and event loop the handle multiple event in the same thread.
Flask-Static is dead, long live Frozen-Flask!
Just because the new name is so much cooler.
Programatically open multiple GNOME Terminal tabs
To run several tasks in parallel and keep their output separated, run each one in its own shell. Doing so can be automated, and thus it should. Here is how to open a GNOME Terminal window with multiple tabs from a script.
Random pronounceable passwords
Using a sample text for statistics and Markov chains, we can generate passwords that are both random (and thus strong) and pronounceable (and thus easier to memorize.)
Using Jinja2 in Django
How to replace Django’s templating system by Jinja2 and still profit from it eg. in generic views.
Flask-Static: yet another static website generator
I’ve been working on re-launching my personal website (you’re looking at the result), and wrote a static website generator in the process. It’s made of two Flask extension: Flask-FlatPages gives easy access to content with metadata stored in text files, and Flask-Static takes a snapshot of a Flask application as static files.