Interesting Open Source Surprises

Posted by Leo Soto on October 30th, 2008.

Posted by Leo Soto on May 28th, 2008.

This blog post by choonkeat explain how to overcome the ruby limitation which forbids the use of the “class [name-of-the-class-to-monkeypatch]” statement inside methods.

Posted by Leo Soto on August 18th, 2008.

Now that Django runs on Jython out of the box, you may wonder: “How do I deploy the resulting project into an application server (Tomcat, GlassFish, JBoss, etc)”?

Posted by Leo Soto on May 30th, 2008.

This week, as part of my GSoC project, I had to do some work related with zxJDBC, the very cool DBAPI <-> JDBC brige which is bundled with Jython. Among other things…

Posted by Leo Soto on July 10th, 2008.

I’ve been so busy last weeks (part-time job, Summer of Code, and university final exams and labs!), that I even forgot to mention that Frank gave me committer access to the Jython project, two weeks…

Posted by Leo Soto on July 14th, 2008.

Both Django and Jython project are fast moving targets these days. That’s a good thing, both projects are rapidly approaching big milestones: Django 1.0 and Jython 2.5. But that also means that…

Posted by Leo Soto on April 23rd, 2008.

This post is not exactly hot news, but late is better than never:

My application for the Google Summer of Code 2008, titled “Django on Jython: Supporting Python Web App Frameworks…

Posted by Leo Soto on April 22nd, 2008.

I saw this on reddit, on a thread about the supposed best 404 error message. But this is one far better:

“I’m sorry, you’ve reached a page that I cannot find. I’m really sorry about this…

Posted by Leo Soto on December 16th, 2008.

No, this is not going to be a very well articulated post. I’m just ranting, expecting that I can feel better in a few more minutes and get back to work.