Kevin Deldycke — 🦬🪒🐇🕳 yak-shaving the rabbit holes

In this post I’ll show you how I installed Python 2.4 on Mac OS X Leopard and how, starting from a bare Python environment, we can build a stand-alone Zope 2.10 instance with Plone 3.2 thanks to zc.buildout . If your goal is to play with …

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A year ago, I brought a Enttec Pro USB/DMX widget . Since then, a new firmware was released. If it doesn’t fix any critical bug to me, I still have to upgrade it (don’t mind asking why… ;) ). And to make things fun (read “dangerous”), I choose to do …

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xkcd comic #541 (titled “TED Talk”) expose a problem I’ve long been aware of: how do you end parenthetical statements with emoticons? Randall reveal two possible solutions: … Linux (or BSD :) would… … Linux (or BSD :) ) would… Of course, none of these are acceptable! But today, I think I’ve found …

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This week I’m on tour with Cool Cavemen . I’ll try to cover this event on twitter. You can follow our adventures live through my account. And if you’re on twitter, don’t miss the official feed of the band ! :)

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Last week I came across a showstopper bug on Mailman 2.1.9-7, the current version of Mailman package distributed with Debian Etch  . Here is the python traceback (from /var/log/mailman/error logfile) I get each time I’ve sent a mail to my brand new mailing-list: Dec 20 …

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