Ross Patterson's Blog - Posts tagged Pyramid

Looking for Projects and/or a Team

2012-11-09T00:00:00+00:00

I’m available for work and am interested in contract/consultant projects or a position with a team.

I’m available and looking for new opportunities. My strengths are Python web programming, particularly Plone and Zope with strong testing skills and habits. See my LinkedIn profile or my Careers 2.0 profile for more details. I’m interested in the following:

Pyramid or Plone are preferred technologies
open to any Python web work
would be nice to work on social justice or other activism projects
open to work with a good team on any kind of project
working from remote most of the time is preferred
open to on-site opportunities in San Francisco

Please contact me if you’re looking for anyone or know of anyone who is.

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Updated on 09 November 2012

Imported from Plone on Mar 15, 2021. The date for this update is the last modified date in Plone.

Plone lands on IIS!

2012-10-30T00:00:00+00:00

Help me test a new GUI Plone install on Windows and IIS.

Just in time for the scariest night of the year, my Windows installer work based on the Web Platform Installer (WebPI) is finally ready to test. So PLEASE fire up your Windows VMs, try the Quick Start below and report what your experience is. Then take a look at the Known Issues and help with any of them if you can. In particular, any assistance getting the FCGI gateway to work under full IIS, not just IIS Express would be very helpful. You may also want to try the Quick Start from iiswsgi to install a Pyramid project under IIS.

Wanting to do things the right way, most of my work has been on a generalized WSGI server which acts as an FCGI gateway to IIS and a set of distutils commands for building and distributing Web Deploy packages. See my previous post on WebPI for more of the history and the iiswsgi README.rst for more details. In the meantime, please test this stuff!

Between my last post and now, I’ve overcome most of the hurdles to a sufficient degree that I think that the solutions, workarounds, or hacks involved are good enough to use as our Windows story. In particular, the hacks I have to use to find the right APPL_PHYSICAL_PATH after install and the workaround I use to register the IIS FCGI application I think are robust enough to rely upon even if it’s horrible that we have to use them.

Those of you who have offered help with this Windows stuff, I’m so sorry about my delays in following up with y’all. There’s just been an endless number of points between the state of things at the time and where I had to get things in order to provide you specific things to test and a way to test them. At any rate, the time is now, so please all of you who contacted me or who I was put in touch with, test it now and look at the Known Issues for stuff you might be able to help with. And if you have a MS suppport contract, please submit support requests as I’ve described there.

I have one last note I hope isn’t in poor tastes. I have put way too much of my own time into this thing, so recouping anything would be a help. Here’s my gittip page, my PayPal is my email and I’m open to any other suggestions as to how I might get some compensation for this. All that said, it has been a labor of… well, not love for the work, but certtainly love for the community. :-) You know what I mean so it’s fine if nothing comes of it.

Onward!

Quick Start

The iiswsgi distribution includes two sample IIS apps which can be installed through WebPI once the custom feed has been added:

ATM, requires a machine with svn.exe and git.exe on the PATH since it requires a couple of unreleased fixes.
Install and Launch Web Platform Installer
Use the search box in the upper-right to search for Web Matrix
Click add next to the most recent Web Matrix entry, then Install in the lower-right and follow the instructions
Open the Options dialog by clicking the link on the lower-right
Under Custom Feeds, add the URL for latest *.webpi.xml file from the Plone release to install and click Add feed
Under Which Web Server…?, check IIS Express and then click OK
Use the search box in the upper-right to search for Plone
Click add next to Plone Application then Install in the lower-right and follow the instructions

Updated on 30 October 2012

Imported from Plone on Mar 15, 2021. The date for this update is the last modified date in Plone.

PyCon 2012 Sprints

2012-03-16T00:00:00+00:00

Sprinting after PyCon and my first time working with and contributing to Pyramid.

Sprinting on Pyramid

Really my conference review should be taken worth a grain of salt, because I never go for the talks, it’s all about the sprints. Having so thoroughly enjoyed sprinting since I came out of my shell and joined the Plone community in earnest, it’s always the only thing I’m really focused on. What can I say? In this wonderful age where, through open-source communities and the recognition of the ambiguous stuff that helps them thrive, we all recognize that things like docs and diversity are as important as the quality of code or the power of features, I’m still a code monkey at heart.

Since there were no Plone sprints that I heard of or saw on the boards, I took the chance to sprint on Pyramid, part of the Pylons project and love child of repoze. I’ve been wanting to learn Pyramid for quite some time now since I noticed how many of my favorite Zope people have moved to Pyramid. So I went to the Pyramid room, sat down and asked what someone with plenty of zope experience could do.

The Pyramid sprinters were a great group, very welcoming and friendly. They remind me a lot of the things I most love about the Plone community. It also gave me the chance to work closely with Chris McDonough. Chris is very smart, builds great software, and is just very kind-hearted.

Here’s some of the stuff I worked on:

add IP range/network restriction to pyramid_debugtoolbar

I used this simple feature task to cut my teeth on the Pyramid development environment and tool-chain. It was the first time in a long time I worked outside a buildout environment and it made for some interesting comparisons. They keep things really simple relying only on distribute’s setuptools and virtualenv.

I have to say, I still prefer working with buildout. Buildout’s caching is much better than easy_install’s and virtualenv so updating the environment after changes is smoother and faster. For testing against multiple Python versions and implementations, such as Jython and PyPy, Pyramid uses tox which is pretty slick and very useful. I’d love to see something like this for deploying the same buildout with different versions of Python.
support Python 3 in repoze.sendmail

This was my first time tackling Python 2 and 3 compatibility issues. I have to say it’s just not as hard as I feared.
System Message: INFO/1 (/builds/rpatterson/ross-pattersons-site/blog/pycon-2012-sprints/index.rst, line 15); backlink

Duplicate explicit target name: “repoze.sendmail”.

improve and centralize email message serializing in repoze.sendmail

The one place where there was a lot of Python 2 and 3 compatibility pain was in the encoding of email messages. In this case, as in others I suspect, the problem was that encoding was being done all over the place in a not-very-well-architected way and the real solution was to clean things up and put in more clearly defined boundaries and interfaces.

That task would have been impossible without R. David Murray. I pestered him endlessly and he helped me learn all the deep, dark corners of the email protocols and the Python email package, both of which have considerable quirks which some would call bugs. At the end of it, I had a clear sense of all the quirks of encoding emails and all the things that the email package doesn’t already do. I baked those into repoze.sendmail.encoding and added that support as a part sending mail through repoze.sendmail.

Once that was in place, finishing Python 2 and 3 compatibility was a snap.
add Python 3 support to pyramid_mailer

Again, once repoze.sendmail.encoding was in-place, I just ripped all the email encoding support out of pyramid_mailer and Python 2 and 3 compatibility was a cinch.
System Message: INFO/1 (/builds/rpatterson/ross-pattersons-site/blog/pycon-2012-sprints/index.rst, line 15); backlink

Duplicate explicit target name: “pyramid_mailer”.

fix Cc/Bcc witout To handling in pyramid_mailer

While I had my hands in pyramid_mailer, I fixed a bug reported by Michael Merickel.
add support for multiple request parameters when registering Pyramid views

I’m not even sure what this stuff does, but Pyramid has such great test coverage, I was able to get started. I’m still waiting for feeback to see what I’m not yet understanding.
updating warnings handling in Pyramid tests

Just a simple test fixture update to cleanup output.

Updated on 16 March 2012

Imported from Plone on Mar 15, 2021. The date for this update is the last modified date in Plone.