Archive for the 'google' Category

It’s Alive!

10Oct08

Even though our GSoC students didn’t had as much success as I hoped, they did contribute some valuable patches that pointed on the right direction. This week, with the Plone Conference 2008 going on in Washington and the fact I did not attend this conference, I finally made enough time available to get my hands [...]


It’s great overall. The face-based clustering is really amazing. Except when it isn’t.


Word is out that Google is launching a new browser on the market: the Google Chrome. This announcement comes hot on the heels of Google’s agreement renewal with Mozilla foundation. According to an article last week on NetworkWorld, “Mozilla generates the bulk of its income from ties to Google, according to the company’s latest financial [...]


It had to happen, eventually. I’m subscribed to Google Alerts for the keyword Plone, so whenever a new article or page mentioning Plone get’s picked up by Google, I get an email alert. Today, I got an alert from an article published by Burlington Free Press. The summary in the email alert had the following [...]


Google just announced the Google App Engine, and reading through the documentation and all I came up with this idea: it should be possible to get Plone running on the Google App Engine! How would that be possible you ask? Well, a couple things are required. The Repoze guys have Plone running as a WSGI [...]


What is Crick?

15Feb08

The Jabber protocol has this thing called a Resource Names. It’s actually a quite interesting concept. Some Jabber clients, for example Adium can display the Jabber Resource Name of your contacts. Some Jabber clients use their own name as the Resource Name. Today while looking at one of my contacts, i saw it had a [...]


As I’ve mentioned on the previous post, I’ve just came back from PyConBrasil 3. The talks there were just amazing, and I saw some great posts from folks that attended about what they did enjoy the most. As for myself, I really loved meeting some long-time friends that I hadn’t seen since PyConBrasil 1, two [...]


And now for something completely different. A *video* status report of the initial steps on my Google SoC project. I hope you enjoy it. You can find full video transcript below. Update 1: I’ve merged those changes into Zope 2.10 branch now, so they will be available in the upcoming Zope 2.10.4 release if all [...]