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Thursday, April 03, 2003

I was ignorant to the thoughts that this name for my Python related notes might be intended as some sort of attempted association with Py the magazine, not just Python the programming language. I was thinking of my wordy Python 10 conference slogan suggestion "Coil up with a warm slice of Py."..eluding to a half-remembered though from The Psychology of Computer Programming and Python's grand array/list slicing feature.

If Py Parlour Press asks me to change it, or I see confusion on the part of the 6.4142135623730951 readers of this site, I will.

11:25:25 PM

Not the Heavy Metal Rock Band of the 80's, the Twisted [Python] Development Tool.

Via Jarno:

"""Glyph Lefkowitz, the mighty sorcerer of the Twisted empire, weighs in on Game developers conference and PyCon. Big round of applause to Glyph and the Twisted team for spreading the gospel of Twisted and Python.

And I'm ready to flow my modest Google-juices for this good cause:

Twisted also had its first serious legal issue. Zoteca got a cease-and-desist letter from the band "Twisted Sister" while he was there, because of the unfortunately named Twisted package which I cannot name for legal reasons, but which will probably be called "twisted.sibling" in the future. I'll be putting up a page for those of you with lots of google-juice to link to so that future web searches for Twisted Sister will turn up some mention of this legal notice. """

(Jarno, your perma-links seem to be broken.)

What do you get when you squeeze a Square Rutabaga? Google Juice.

12:12:45 PM

Zwiki was one of many wiki's and web-based content mangement systems covered in the article "Quickiwiki, Swiki, Twiki, Zwiki and the Plone Wars Wiki as a PIM and Collaborative Content Tool " at "Information Today." The author covered a two broad categories with a blogger's tenacity for hyperlinking and brevity. Interesting read, wish it were a wiki page.

Fast? O yeah. The freeform wiki linking (a page name in brackets which doesn't need to conform to spacing or punctuation of the associated WikiPage) resolution caused noticable rendering delays and has now been corrected by one of those grand fundamental changes that fixes a number of other annoyances. Fix in 0.17.0.

There's also a build of Zope 2.6.1 for OSX available, and a Plone installer (not sure which Zope version) is here.

2:03:02 AM