[web2py] Does return have to be the last statement in a function?

2011-05-02 Thread Michael McGinnis
While a visitor is reading a page/looking at the view, I'd like to be doing something in the background in preparation for his or her next action, or to finish processing his previous action. Right now all my functions end with return statements that display a view. Do they have to end with return

[web2py] Re: web2py on Quora

2011-03-01 Thread Michael McGinnis
On Mar 1, 8:34 pm, Massimo Di Pierro massimo.dipie...@gmail.com wrote: That is a difference. They follow explicit is better than implicit and that cause verbosity. We choose to follow do not repeat yourself and everything should have a default so web2py's code is more compact. If you like

[web2py] Re: web2py Debian packages available for testing

2011-02-28 Thread Michael McGinnis
Impressive! It installed easily, using Ubuntu Software Manager (10.10). It said License: Unknown, Updates: Unknown, with no screenshot. However, I did get an error on the examples app - maybe this is a known issue. ERROR TICKET FOR EXAMPLES TICKET ID

[web2py] Re: Sharing knowledge in this group. What is the point ?

2011-02-21 Thread Michael McGinnis
That's great. I like the idea of having two or three layers of documentation, which would allow Here is a basic overview of this feature, but click here to read all the details. I agree that people shouldn't have to Google to learn about older features, but only to learn about new features that

[web2py] Re: GSoC

2011-02-17 Thread Michael McGinnis
Yes, a blog for GAE could be a killer app - a free blogging platform, particularly attractive to people in China who are blocked from using Wordpress.com. Our killer blog app would be based on InstantPress, of course, but its admin interface would have to work like Wordpress, just as OpenOffice

[web2py] Re: Spam control? and word filtering?

2011-02-16 Thread Michael McGinnis
on a limited person basis. It currently supports 4 operations: List dirty words, Censor dirty words, Replace dirty words, and Define Dirty words. If you're interested in testing it for us, please send an email to ryan at noslang.com. Michael McGinnis On Feb 16, 9:18 am, Jonathan Lundell jlund

[web2py] Re: How to create a parallel mobile site

2011-02-14 Thread Michael McGinnis
Also, you might want to look at what Ethan Marcotte has done with media queries using CSS, which he calls responsive web design: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/responsive-web-design/ Michael McGinnis On Feb 14, 2:47 pm, Chris partyonais...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm making a site

[web2py] Re: Application logging

2011-02-13 Thread Michael McGinnis
I can't find documentation in the book for this, either by searching for logging.conf, logger.app or web2py.app. Maybe I'm lazy or ignorant. But I love the usability consulting part of my job: anytime something isn't extremely easy for me to find on a website, I can claim that it's not my fault,

[web2py] Re: Can't generate index.yaml

2011-01-27 Thread Michael McGinnis
I had a similar experience. My app ran fine on web2py and on the GAE SDK, but when I deployed it, the indexes (which surely were created while running it on the SDK), never arrived. On Jan 27, 8:49 am, devGS vitali@geniestills.com wrote: Hello, I'm can't make my GAE Launcher to generate the

[web2py] Re: experts

2011-01-12 Thread Michael McGinnis
But the home page also says, ...or contact us and we will assemble for you a well-balanced and cost-effective international team to work on your project. Should we use the http://experts4solutions.com/e4s/default/contact to start that process, or should the home page be changed to de- emphasize

[web2py] Re: The stability of web2py releases

2010-12-22 Thread Michael McGinnis
I'd like to help fix those typos. Let me know how I can get started. Michael McGinnis michael.d.mcgin...@gmail.com On Dec 22, 4:01 pm, Stefaan Himpe stefaan.hi...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a typo on this planet that can evade Anthony? :D While we're on the subject... *cough

[web2py] Re: it case you missed it...

2010-12-16 Thread Michael McGinnis
No opposition here. Like others, I was originally confused whether using the web2py framework would force my web app to be open source. I would welcome a change in license. On Dec 16, 4:33 pm, mdipierro mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu wrote: GPL2 creates the loophole. The AGPL closes the loophole. The

[web2py] Re: SEO Tips How this can be applied in web2py apps?

2010-12-12 Thread Michael McGinnis
Yes, we ought to standardize on www or non-www, but as GoldenTiger implied earlier, the Google Page Rank displayed in toolbars and tools has little relationship to the numbers that Google actually uses to rank pages. Seomoz is a great resource. On Dec 11, 8:41 am, GoldenTiger

[web2py] Re: SEO Tips How this can be applied in web2py apps?

2010-12-12 Thread Michael McGinnis
Those are good ideas. Automatically appending the site name at the end of each title might be helpful. Or copying the first paragraph as a fall-back meta-description (not so sure about that one). Or inserting dynamic keywords for each page into the meta keywords. But we also have to avoid

[web2py] Re: needs more new dal testers

2010-12-09 Thread Michael McGinnis
I've never used either one before. But no errors on pypy-1.4. For jython-2.5.2rc2, here is a typical message, apparently one of 77: ** File dal.py, line 4874, in __main__.test_all Failed example: db.paper.drop() Exception

[web2py] Re: needs more new dal testers

2010-12-09 Thread Michael McGinnis
. On Dec 9, 11:17 pm, Michael McGinnis ish...@biographiks.com wrote: I've never used either one before. But no errors on pypy-1.4. For jython-2.5.2rc2, here is a typical message, apparently one of 77: ** File dal.py, line

[web2py] Re: Anyone willing to help out with Paypal

2010-12-02 Thread Michael McGinnis
That's great. I will be running on GAE, so I guess it wouldn't work for me. I expect that all I would need is a notification that the payment has been credited to my Paypal account, and how much, so the amount can be credited to the user's account in my system. I would also like to transfer