Docker is a great tool to deploy your application to staging and production environments, but the current ecosystem make it much less pleasant to use in development. Docker Compose does help a lot, but things could be more efficient — Even
Late by two months, here’s the 6th issue of The Software Practitioner’s Digest, featuring only one relevant resource published between May and June 2012. Hopefully the next issue won’t be out too late, as I’m no longer as busy as I’d been f…
This is the third issue of the The Software Practitioner’s Digest, covering the little activity from December 2011 — A very quiet month not only because of the holiday season, but also because it’s an even month and the periodicals I follow…
Docker is a great tool to deploy your application to staging and production environments, but the current ecosystem doesn’t make it particularly pleasant to use in development. Docker Compose does help a lot, but things could be more effici…
Hello, World! You’re reading the first issue of The Software Practitioner’s Digest, covering resources published during October 2011. The October issue of Computer features articles on Software Engineering and how it meets other fields. Man…
This late issue of The Software Practitioner’s Digest, the first in 2012, highlights resources published in January in Better Software, Dr. Dobb’s, IEEE Software and Software Engineering Radio. This digest has been the most difficult to com…
repoze.who.plugins.ldap is an straightforward yet powerful solution to enable LDAP authentication in your WSGI application. It enables you to have LDAP authentication working in your new or existing applications, in few minutes and with few…
Some weeks ago I was invited to make repoze.who.plugins.ldap an official repoze.who plugin, which means that: I’ve not started the migration, but I hope to start in a few days. Gustavo is a software developer based in Oxford, England. He wo…
This article first appeared in the May 2009 issue of Python Magazine and has been slightly updated. The contents of the article are only applicable to repoze.who 1.0 and repoze.what 1.0, not repoze.who 2 and repoze.what 1.1 which are under
I’ve just uploaded the materials for my tutorial at EuroPython 2010, “WSGI from Start to Finish”. You can also get the slides and the WSGI cheat-sheet individually. I’ve updated the slides so that they make sense even without me speaking; s…
namedtuple, classes and dictionaries are no longer the only options to represent a key/value mapping where all they keys are known upfront: Records may be a better alternative and they’re now available in Python via PyRecord. This implement…
This is the March-April 2012 issue of The Software Practitioner’s Digest, featuring an experimental format where the editor’s comments are presented in an introductory video and the highlighted publications are listed with their original ab…