Baiju Muthukadan's Blog

I created few views and wrote some unit and functional tests, though learning very slow still... I was very excited when my first functional test got run. Now I am catching up with Test Driven Development, but documention is still poor. Subversion repository is here: https://developer.berlios.de/projects/zissue/ I am also planning few simple Zope3 apps, so that I can easily make my first stable release. Day after to morrow is our election to 'Panchayath' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panchayat

Yesterday was Thiruvonam (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onam) And I didn't made any progress in Zope3 learning, Also I was wondering about this problem: http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope3-users/2005-September/001031.html Today only I got a solution: http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope3-users/2005-September/001038.html Just to track my development, I created a project at BerliOS: https://developer.berlios.de/projects/zissue/ I have committed the source to Subversion, to check out: svn checkout svn://svn.berlios.de/zissue/trunk/zissue So far only few interfaces, today I will create one view for Comments, and I have to figure out how to handle attachments (implement IFile, how?).

Today I started experiments with Zope 3, Last few weeks I took print outs of Zope3 book's most of the pages in DotMatrix :) I think the learning curve is too steep, but it was very interesting. When I started learning PyGTK, I created a usable app in one week. My motivation to learn PyGTK was redhat-config-* tools, there was nothing interesting in those apps, but it amazed me that it was very cool. This is first time I am learing a framework (hmm.. there is PyUnit, but its not that much difficult). May be for developing huge apps, big frameworks will be required, anyway I will look into other alternatives after Zope3 becomes comfortable. First I created an instance of zope at /var/tmp/tzope/ then created a package at /var/tmp/tzope/lib/python and It is 'Zissue Tracker' (an experimental zissue/bug tracking system for learing Zope 3) So the package reside in : /var/tmp/tzope/lib/python/zissuetracker Today (Sunday) I came to my office just to work on it. Now I only finished fe...

In this blog: http://blogs.nuxeo.com/sections/blogs/ruslan_spivak/2005_09_01_btrees-setdefault Blogger says that Python's dictionary method, 'setdefault' without explicit default is confusing and useless. Now I think there should be a 'getdefault' method which also requires two explicit arguments, it will return explicit default if no key exists. Here is an example: >>> d = {1: None} >>> print d.getdefault(1, 'Hi') None >>> print d.getdefault(2, 'Hi') 'Hi' Hmm.. there is already a 'get' method. If we have 'getdefault' then 'get' can be deprecated, Here is the reason: >>> d = {1: None} >>> print d.get(1) None >>> print d.get(2) None See, here I didn't thought about any use cases.