Adding automatically ez_setup in your SVN repository

For users that don’t yet have setuptools installed (or a too old version) or who want to include a copy of ez_setup.py in their package distribution, here is the one-true-way. This method is already documented on Phillip J. Eby‘s setuptools pages, but it’s buried in the middle, and I keep forgetting how to do it. […]

Security monitoring of Debian alerts is less than practical

I was looking for a program (command-line) that would allow me to check if a Debian system was up to date against all the offical security annoucements (DSA). Something like the program glsa-check which is available for Gentoo systems. I just found two, none of them being really useful: forgotten_name: It works, but the bad […]

Another fine new web framework: Clever Harold

Clever Harold is a new python web framework (another one :-) that uses WSGI as its core glue. This allows you to define your own stack of elements (sessions, authentications, compression, templates, etc.). It is really well done (for a 0.1 version), and, compared to other WSGI based frameworks (like RhubarbTart or Pylons), seems easier […]