strangeGizmo.com

[Python] restxsl 0.9.1

Wed, 12 Jul 2006 10:03:37 PST

restxsl 0.9.1 is now available with the following bug fixes and improvements:

Hyphens in literal blocks are now encoded as non-breaking hyphens. This prevents web browsers from wrapping lines that should otherwise be preserved.
restxsl.transform.restxsl now accepts an additional keyword argument (extModuleCookie) that will be passed to the first argument of all methods called by the pyxslt directive. This can be used to pass state information from the code that calls restxsl to the extension module’s functions.
Corrected the code that handles the pyxslt directive so that it looks for a node with the name pyxslt instead of python, which was the node name used by the alpha code.
The pyxslt directive now adds an additional attribute named method to the pyxslt tag. This attribute includes the name of the method that was called by the pyxslt directive.
There was an error in the pyxslt directive that prevented it from properly serializing the result set.

[Python] pyxslt 0.9.1

Wed, 12 Jul 2006 10:03:27 PST

pyxslt 0.9.1 is now available with the following bug fixes and improvements:

SQLObject DateTimeCol values are now serialized as ISO 8601 values using isoformat() instead of just being converted to strings. ISO 8601 values are easier to use with the various XSLT date functions.

[Python] restxsl

Mon, 26 Jun 2006 12:57:39 PST

restxsl transforms reStructuredText files into XML files using XSL templates. Most users will output XHTML files, but any form of XML file can be created.

Every aspect of the generated content and layout can be controlled. A sample XSL template is provided to get you going, but you can easily create templates to match any type of site design. The strangeGizmo.com web site is 100% reStructuredText, generated entirely with restxsl.

As an added bonus, restxsl can apply SmartyPants-style processing to your reStructuredText files. Quotes, dashes, and ellipses are all educated automatically as part of the restxsl processing pipeline. This behavior is controlled by a parameter to restxsl and can be enabled and disabled as desired.

[Python] pyxslt

Thu, 22 Jun 2006 13:46:16 PST

pyxslt makes it easy to turn Python objects into XML documents. In addition to basic XML serialization, pyxslt can also apply an XSL template to the serialized XML fragments. You could, for example, use pyxslt to convert the results of an SQLObject query to an XHTML file.

All Python objects given to pyxslt are converted into their string representations. pyxslt focuses on serializing objects in such a way as to make the construction of XSL templates as easy as possible. As a result, pyxslt’s XML serialization is usually not reversible.

In other words, pyxslt is not a replacement for pickle, marshal, shelve, or any of the other true serialization modules. pyxslt is designed with one-way XSL transformation in mind.

[Article] Direct-to-NFS

Tue, 21 Feb 2006 22:44:21 PST

eioMAIL.com used NetApp Filers to store the service’s account and e-mail data. But instead of using standard operating system calls to access that data, the eioMAIL.com servers included a custom NFS library that allowed the software to micro-manage its usage of the file store.

[Article] Performance Reviews

Tue, 21 Feb 2006 22:44:21 PST

This article describes an innovative method of reviewing employee performance that simplifies the review process while simultaneously increasing its value. The concepts discussed here are applied to a software engineering team, but can easily be modified for any department and organization.

[Software] Empty Magic

Tue, 06 Dec 2005 07:17:49 PST

My new utility for Elektron’s Machinedrum synthesizer is now available!

Want to mute tracks from your MIDI keyboard? How about playing GND-SN or EFM-XT with a MIDI controller? Maybe you would like to link multiple parameters together and tweak them with a single control wheel? Empty Magic lets you do all of that and more!

Click here to learn more about Empty Magic and download a free evaluation version of the software.