TurboGears and Pylons will merge! (and CleverHarold RIP)

Mark Ramm, one of TurboGears‘s core developers announced on TurboGears’s mailing list that they will merge with Pylons! To be more precise, the API of TurboGears will be implemented on top of Pylons. It seems they already made some test/proof of concept that are, as they say “a huge success”. That’s really good news for […]

CCT (CalCubeTimer) v0.2 is now available

CalCubeTimer in its newest version is now available! For people who don’t know, CCT is a java program that times for Rubik’s cubing performance. It is really cool not only because it is beautiful, easy to use, has a client mode to connect to a central server (for contests), but because it allows you to […]

HOWTO Installation of OpenWRT on a WGT634U usb router Part 2

OK, we now have to configure the network. The goal is to be able to connect to our access point, where we’ll get information to connect to our “sound server” (I call it like that because I’ve still not decided between using mpd+mpc+samba or some more direct access like the use of esd). We’ll set […]

Videos of every presentation of Journée Python 2007 are now online!

As the title says it, each presentation was filmed, and has just been uploaded for everyone’s pleasure! Here is the two-part video presentation of Twisted, done by Michael SCHERER. Oh, by the way, please take a minute to vote for your favourite Internet Engine!

Security patching WordPress themes against Cross-Script Attacks (XSS)

A nice article explaining the vulnerability in Worpdress themes (in fact anything using php :-) was published some days ago. Now, there’s even a vulnerability scanner available (done in Perl). I ran it on several of the blogs I manage, and all of them were vulnerable to XSS (wp-scanner also tests other vulnerabilities) :-( I […]

HOWTO Installation of OpenWRT on a WGT634U usb router

Before the 7.06 stable version of OpenWRT there were many problems for making USB audio working on this exceptional router (the only one I know with a USB port). Problems with kernel version 2.4/2.6, problems with alsa, problems with USB not working (usb2), etc. Take a look at the forums, and see all horrible, painful […]

Journées Python Francophone 2007 Conference at La Villette, France

I went today to the JournÃ©e Python 2007 Conference in France. I managed to see half of the Twisted intro, some lightning talks, and most of the afternoon presentations (thanks to Ido’s mid-day nap). Most of the talks were introductory type, but they were finely presented (alas most of the audience already knew python). I […]