repoze.bfg 1.2a1 released

To all of you that are interested, a new major feature release version is available of repoze.bfg, 1.2alpha1 that includes support for imperative configuration, read more about it here.

Setting up Python2.6 on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS

If you wanna test the new Plone alpha release (Plone4.0alpha1) you'd need a 2.6 installation. If you are using your VPS and 8.04 LTS as your rock OS, you won't want to upgrade just for the python version.

Instead of building it yourself, the non debian way, you should use a package. That's very easy with Launchpad's rocking PPA feature.

Just add the proper sources (of python-dev) to your sources.list in /etc/apt/sources.list , make sure you import the pub key for the archive so apt won't complain , sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get install python2.6. And you've got 2.6 packages made by Ubuntu's Python Chief , Matthias Klose. This is as per this blueprint.


To add the sources:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/python-dev/ppa/ubuntu hardy main 

deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/python-dev/ppa/ubuntu hardy main 

To add the key, just do:
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys D81367B9

Funny Plonista

I just found out a very funny yet reality reflecting drawing about the Slacking Plonista excuse 'buildout!'. I'd like to share it with the readers of my blog:

What do you think ?

Budapest 2009 - Plone Conference

A quick note - the plone conference promises to be an extraordinary evannent. It is amazing to see the participants, meeting some of the plone celebs and superstarts, and sitting next to Hnno from Jarn.

Thank You Facebook

Different from my usual flame against facebook, I'd like to stop today and thank its existence. The fact you can contact people there without needing to know any cyber-detail about them besides their real name is nothing short but ingenious, to the extent of prooving to be life saving.

Kudos to the Facebook creators for that novel idea!

Plone as a SharePoint replacement

It's been a while that I've been thinking that plone could be a nice and feature fit replacement for SharPoint.

Before settling on SharePoint, read this. You might save a "couple" of bucks.

I'm happy to help folks that want it installed in non profit organization do first install and give some preliminary intro to the software. Free of charge! :-)

Visualizing Implanted Tumors in Mice with Magnetic Resonance Imaging Using Magnetotactic Bacteria

Me and my brother were contemplating about the possible imaging application of magnetotactic bateria. We decided to keep in a bit of a secret until he can submit his undergrad project proposal for resarch. However, quite accidently I have discovered that the idea and experiment design has already been suggested and supposedly someone is already working on this.

This is quite interesting, as this holds potential for accurate and absolute modeling and tracking of tumors whilst inducing minial to no damage to the patient and virutally no side-effetcs.

Read all about it here.