Let's make Python the core system administration tool

2007-05-11 Thread George Belotsky
My article, "Rethinking the Linux Distribution", was published today on O'Reilly ONLamp. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2007/05/10/rethinking-the-linux-distribution.html I have done a lot of research on what the Linux distribution should look like in the emerging Web 2.0/SaaS/Web OS world,

Flightdeck-UI MVM and Library release 0.3.0

2007-02-25 Thread George Belotsky
The goal of the Flightdeck-UI project is to apply ideas from aircraft instrumentation design to general-purpose user interfaces. Flightdeck-UI release 0.3.0 is a development release of the Multi-Level Monitor (MVM) application and the Tkinter widget library which MVM uses. MVM 0.3.0 adds the "saf

FlightFeather Social Networking Platform 0.3.3

2007-02-10 Thread George Belotsky
FlightFeather's goal is "social networking for everyone". This means that *anyone* should have a chance to run a *popular* social networking site -- on minimal hardware, and without wasting bandwidth. Version 0.3.3 is the current development release. It modifies the way the FlightFeather server

Creating Web 2.0 sites using Python2.5, without a database.

2007-02-01 Thread George Belotsky
LinuxWorld has published my article about the Relative Static approach to web application design ("BoSStats, FlightFeather and the Relative Static Web"). http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/012907-flightfeather.html This method tries to capture as much system state as possible in static HTM

FlightFeather Social Networking Platform 0.3.2

2007-01-31 Thread George Belotsky
FlightFeather's goal is "social networking for everyone". This means that *anyone* should have a chance to run a *popular* social networking site -- on minimal hardware, and without wasting bandwidth. Release 0.3.2 is the current development release. It updates the submission feature (which curr

FlightFeather Social Networking Platform 0.3.1

2007-01-26 Thread George Belotsky
FlightFeather's goal is "social networking for everyone". This means that *anyone* should have a chance to run a *popular* social networking site -- on minimal hardware, and without wasting bandwidth. Release 0.3.1 is the current development release. It adds a safe shutdown feature to the FlightF

FlightFeather Social Networking Platform 0.3.0

2007-01-23 Thread George Belotsky
FlightFeather's goal is "social networking for everyone". This means that *anyone* should have a chance to run a *popular* social networking site -- on minimal hardware, and without wasting bandwidth. Release 0.3.0 is the current development release. It introduces a feature that allows easy submi

FlightFeather Social Networking Platform 0.2.8 (First Beta)

2007-01-19 Thread George Belotsky
FlightFeather's goal is "social networking for everyone". This means that *anyone* should have a chance to run a *popular* social networking site -- on minimal hardware, and without wasting bandwidth. Release 0.2.8 is the first beta version of FlightFeather. This release also adds a facility for

FlightFeather Social Networking Platform, Release 0.2.7

2007-01-12 Thread George Belotsky
FlightFeather's goal is "social networking for everyone". This means that *anyone* should have a chance to run a *popular* social networking site -- on minimal hardware, and without wasting bandwidth. Release 0.2.7 adds a complete working example site to the distributions, along with directions o

FlightFeather Social Networking Platform, Release 0.2.6

2007-01-06 Thread George Belotsky
FlightFeather's goal is "social networking for everyone". This means that *anyone* should have a chance to run a *popular* social networking site -- on minimal hardware, and without wasting bandwidth. Release 0.2.6 fixes a bug, which could cause the FlightFeather server to hang if excessively lon

FlightFeather Social Networking Platform + site for office politics, etc.

2006-12-30 Thread George Belotsky
the system's file handling logic. This feature alone is reason enough to use Python 2.5. Everyone feel free to try out FlightFeather/BoSStats, and give me feedback either on the site itself, or by email. You can post any appropriate content to the site, as the system is live. Best Wi

Python at Seneca's 5th Annual FSOSS Symposium

2006-09-27 Thread George Belotsky
Seneca College (a diverse educational institution with over 100,000 students) is holding their 5th annual Free Software and Open Source Symposium. http://cs.senecac.on.ca/fsoss/2006/index.html There will be lots of very interesting talks and workshops. http://cs.senecac.on.ca/fso

Notes from the Seneca Speaker Series talk on Python

2006-02-04 Thread George Belotsky
The notes on the Python talk (formatted as S5 slides) that I gave as part of the Seneca Speaker Series are now available online: "http://cs.senecac.on.ca/speakers/docs/belotsky/";. The talk is a brief tour on how to use Python in a complex project. This tour includes namespaces, Python's types

Flightdeck-UI Online development release 0.5.0 available

2005-12-15 Thread George Belotsky
mes ideas and suggestions: please email them directly to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". Best Wishes, George Belotsky. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html

Flightdeck-UI Library re-released under the LGPL

2005-12-07 Thread George Belotsky
or welcomes any ideas and suggestions: please email them directly to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". Best Wishes, George Belotsky. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html

Flightdeck-UI Online Version 0.4.0 (Stable) Released

2005-12-02 Thread George Belotsky
c.org/) Flightdeck-UI Online is still primarily written in Python. The author welcomes any ideas and suggestions: please email them directly to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". Best Wishes, George Belotsky. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html

Flightdeck-UI Online Version 0.3.91 Released

2005-11-10 Thread George Belotsky
d (developed using only the MTASC open source ActionScript compiler; see http://www.mtasc.org/) Flightdeck-UI Online is still primarily written in Python. The author welcomes any ideas and suggestions: please email them directly to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". Best Wishes, George Belotsky. --

Flightdeck-UI Online Source Code Available

2005-10-29 Thread George Belotsky
MAIL PROTECTED]". Best Wishes, George Belotsky. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html

Upcoming Python talk in Toronto

2005-09-22 Thread George Belotsky
Seneca College is Canada's largest, with over 100,000 students and more than 260 programs. On October 24, 2005, Seneca will be hosting their 4th annual "Free Software and Open Source Symposium" in Toronto, Ontario. Here is a link to the agenda. http://cs.senecac.on.ca/soss/2005/agenda.php I

Flightdeck-UI -- the Online Version

2005-09-08 Thread George Belotsky
on. The author welcomes any ideas and suggestions: please email them directly to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Best Wishes, George Belotsky. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html