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I’ve been completely fed up with news/feed/rss/atom readers these days. I use Linux as my primary operating system, and I only have a few feeds that I want to rip through quick so I can get to reading the content. Yet, trying to find a reader that doesn’t suck donkey balls has been a chore.

2008-06-21

Wanna know what all the Ruby vulnerabilities are? Or at least have a fun look at how to search through code for clues? It’s a blast.

2008-06-13

I’m dropping a large blog post on everyone to just say that I haven’t died, I’ve just been busy working on my book for A/W about Mongrel. I had contracted with them to do a book about deploying Mongrel, but then decided it wouldn’t be a very good book since we’d already done one about that topic and there wasn’t too much more to say.

Update: I totally fucked up this post. I corrected the URLs but just wait until tonight when I drop another release with some goodies.

I’m still in Poland enjoying RuPy 2008 but thought I’d put out a release of Vellum 0.11 for people to play with.

You can grab it from launchpad where you can get the bzr repo and download source tarballs.

You can also easy_install it, but this is new so let me know if it works. You should just have to do:

easy_install vellum

Finally, if you want the bleeding edge Vellum then track my bzr repo:

bzr branch http://zedshaw.com/repository/vellum/

Now, what’s in this release? It basically has all the features I want but isn’t well documented. There’s extensive tests and docstrings on every method, so a brave programmer could figure it out. For the most part the Vellum project page has samples of the new Vellum format, and there’s sample commands in the vellum/commands.py file in the source.

What you get in this release is the ability to write new commands for your build spec in pure python, plus tons of little clean-ups and bug fixes.

Try it out, and let me know if you can get it working. I’ll be writing a short manual for it pretty soon.

My RuPy Presentation In Bazaar

I’m putting up the full Bazaar repository for my RuPy presentation so other people can grab it and play with it. This presentation was done using all my tools. Vellum for building it. Zapps for Vellum. Idiopidae for code injection into the presentation.

The presentation was done using LaTeX Beamer to make this PDF presentation which was actually generated from this YAML file using a small Python script I wrote to generate the necessary (and repetitive) LaTeX.

I’ll be cleaning this up and writing about it when I write about RuPy sometime next week. So far RuPy has been a blast and I really like Poznan. Virgin Atlantic and Heathrow Airport however can die in the ocean.