Baiju Muthukadan's Blog

This is for the first time I am writing about Malayalam language in my blog. Unfortunately, this is about a catastrophe going to happen for our language :( . I created this blog for writing about my interests (Python,Zope etc.). I hope you will excuse this cross posted blog. By breaking Unicode's basic principle, that, it will only inlclude basic characters of a language, now they are going to add charaters which are formed from other basic characters in Malayalam. You can read more about the issue here: http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/SMC/AtomicChilluIsUnacceptable and in this document: http://www.rachanamalayalam.org/docs/ChilluEncodingIsWrong.pdf . The changes are added to draft version of Unicode 5.1.0, so we still have some hope that it can be reverted. Please support us ! Some background: I started the Swathanthra Malayalam Computing project almost 7 years back while studying at NIT Calicut. Later, when Free Software Foundation of India started working on this project, I ...

After a long time, we had a BangPypers meet yesterday at ThoughtWorks office (thanks to ThoughtWorks for hosting us). Pradeep gave us an excellent introduction to Django using a TODO list application he created. This application used SQLite (RDBMS), jQuery (JS framework) and BluePrint (CSS framework). He will publish this code soon in his site.

Philipp , Martin & Kevin : I used to read planet.plone.org using an offline feed agregator. I really like your blog posts (I never missed a single one). I have one request, could you add full content to your feeds for planets ? I could have asked this question offline, but I thought other bloggers who only give a link or part of content to planets may add their full content to their feeds. I wonder whether there is any other aspect which I don't see which prevents them from adding full content to feeds. One issue which I can see is that, very long posts may clutter the planets, but I think planets can fix it with a new design which only shows a part of the content and a link to view full content. (Feel free to make comments here )

Grok project created a new simple,informative and great looking website: http://grok.zope.org/ Congratulations to the team !

Thanks to Alan Runyan for adding the ZCA book in plone.org: http://plone.org/documentation/books http://plone.org/documentation/books/guide-to-zca/ I hope this will help to increase the readership of the book. Recently I started working on a case study chapter . The source of application can be downloaded from here: http://www.muthukadan.net/downloads/zcalib.tar.bz2 This is a PyGTK application which use PySQLite & ZODB as pluggable storages. Looking forward to your suggestions and feedbacks :)

Last month I purchased my ZCA book from Lulu . Today it arrived in my desk. Print quality, cover design and paper are very good. So far I am the only purchaser of my book ;) The cost of book is $8.75 and shipping cost to India will be another 6 USD. The book's PDF is available from my site . If you want to purchase is it for some reason, you can get it from here .