Lonely Lion

NTFS Resize Frequently Asked Questions

I’d like to shrink my existing laptop partition, and dual-boot to Debian. This utility will help alot. Now I just need to free up 10gb or so.

Zope Frustration

Although I haven’t worked with it for nearly as long as this guy, it worries me for the future. As in, I’d really like to be able to commit to a direction, and I don’t like hearing about these kinds of potential future bumps.

I’m really at a loss as to which direction to head. There’s a huge list of frameworks on python.org.

After Java class, I tried to “get into” J2EE a bit, but ended up quitting because Tomcat was a hassle to set up, and the Hello World example was a chapter long. It didn’t seem like a reasonable thing to be productive in.

Zope was next. I’d played around with it in the past, but didn’t really understand OOP at the time, or Python, so I ended up stopping, and going back to PHP. Now that I feel pretty comfortable with Python, and OO concepts, Zope makes more sense. Now, though, I’m hitting these roadblocks. For instance, why can’t I declare a class in a Python script? They’re just methods…what’s the object? Zope? The “security” requirement that limits my ability to import external modules is also a royal pain.

All in all, I don’t see Zope as my long term direction. Based on some very brief chiPy conversations, I’m going to give Webware a shot.

All in all, I’m sort of missing how easy PHP was to whip up some quick stuff. Maybe Parrot will make things easier somehow. What we really need is to combine all the P’s in LAMP. There’s things I like about each of them, I don’t like having to make choices like this.

I guess I should probably announce this here. I was scooped by another weblog. Ironic.

Anyway, I started a mailing list for the Chicago Python Users Group.

http://lonelylion.com/mailman/listinfo/chipy

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