Link: AOP in Python

David Mertz wrote ONLamp.com: A Primer on Python Metaclass Programming Metaclass Programming allows you to do AOP in Python.

This article seems to be a rehash of his february DeveloperWorks article Metaclass programming in Python

There's also a Python AOP module for Zope, called Transwarp that exploits these techniques.

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Link: Notes from the Chandler Demo

Notes from the Chandler Demo is an excellent introduction to Chandler. I tried their release 0.1 and while rough it is very promising. The Notes explain why the platform they build is promising. Based on wxWindows, Python, RDF and jabber, the architecture looks great and very flexible.

I'm just disappointed that they did not chose to implement this on top of Mozilla, which I think had already all the required platform features. I guess that performance, the choice to have native widgets, and the decision to use Python is what triggered their choice.

It's a great opportunity for me to give a try to my new abilities in Python, which I begun to learn 2 months ago and find a very exciting language.

They use Twiki for their wiki site: a very tasteful choice shall I say :-)

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Re: Discussions about Blogshares

There's an interesting conversation going on about Blogshares.

Joi has a Chat with Seyed, creator of Blogshares, and Pierre Omidyar gives his own thoughts bout it in Joi on Blogshares.

I don't know have a definite point of view about this experiment yet: I think that the sociology of influence games warrant a much more complex regulation system than a market, but at the same time as Omidyar points out, this may lead to some interesting results in the area of "collaborative, value-creating  blogs".

An example of analysis of influence games and their complexity is Pierre Bourdieu's excellent The Rules of Art: Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field, where he analyzes the autonomization of the literary field, led by Flaubert in the 19th century. See http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=0745611524 and http://www.semcoop.com/detail/0804726272 to get an idea of the content.

Clearly a simple market mechanism will not be a good enough mechanism to regulate the complex relationships that the actors are involved in the literary or scientific field.

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Welcome Anders

My ex-Netscape colleague Anders Eriksson started a java blog (I just discovered it on javablog).

Welcome Anders !

Your RSS is valid but Radio cannot understand it. Maybe because it is RSS 1.0. I need to switch to a more tolerant RSS reader.

I get

Can't subscribe to the channel. The most likely cure is to check the URL in a web browser and see if you can get it to read the feed. The following message probably won't help you figure out what went wrong, but we include it here because it might. "Can't evaluate the expression because the name "title" hasn't been defined."

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Link: $1.00 a song, instead of $.10 a song. [Marc's Voice]

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Link: Brian Behlendorf on the air. [Sam Ruby]

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Re: Matrix reloaded

Matrix reloaded

Name calling at Sam's Intertwingly about CSS.

Mark Pilgrim's concluding remark "Instead only try to realize the truth. There is no trunk. Then you'll see that it is not the trunk that locks, it is only yourself. " reminded me my favorite Zen Koan.

"Two monks were arguing about a flag. One said: `The flag is moving.'
The other said: `The wind is moving.'
The sixth patriach happened to be passing by. He told them: `Not the wind, not the flag; mind is moving.'"

I would say that Mark is closer to enlightment than Dave :-)

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Link: Improving your TiBook Wi-Fi reception. [Padawan.info]

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