Baiju Muthukadan's Blog

My journal feed had already added to http://planet.python.org (also in unofficial http://planetpython.org) long back. Now I send request to Zope and Plone planets to add my feed. Thanks to planet admins for adding me to their planets. For Zope and Plone planets I have added my filtered feed which only contains topics related to Zope 3 (sometimes Python also). Well, I will introduce myself here. I am Baiju M, a relatively new Zope 3 developer from Kerala [1] . Previously I have worked for Free Software Foundation of India (as a Job) in 2002-2003. After that I worked as a Koha [2] consultant for few months. Then I joined a startup company based in Calicut (Kerala). I introduced them to Python, we were mainly doing PyGTK [3] based enterprise applications. Three months back I joined ZeOmega [4], a Zope based company. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala [2] http://www.kohadocs.org/CDS_ISIS_to_Koha.html [3] http://www.pygtk.org [4] http://www.zeomega.com

I thought just to write something now. Today is Ugadi [1], a few days back only I heard this word. This is a festival in Karnataka and some other parts of Deccan region of India. I am from Kerala [2], we have a similar festival coming up in next month called Vishu [3] . So happy Ugadi to all ! . Today is leave for my company [4], so we got 3 days consecutive leave. I could have gone to my home, but for some reason I postponed it to next week. One reason is that my wife's final year exam is starting today, so I though let she study :) Remember my last post about Zope 3 [5], I wrote there that Zope 3 is evolving. Today morning I came to office to explore Zope 3 and Buildout. (I don't yet have a laptop, so office is the only place where I can do some coding) I am sitting alone in this big office now, oh! what a silence !! Today I manged to run a Zope 3 application solely from egg [6] Oh! I cannot write anymore, I think I am feeling loneliness now. Hmm.. better to go to ...

Zope 3.4 alpha 1 release is planned in first week of April, 2007 [1]. Zope 3.4 release will be based on eggs and buildouts. So you can use the individual parts without using the whole Zope 3. Suppose you want to use 'zope.interface', just 'easy_install zope.interface' will do it for you. And if you want 'zope.component' [2], use 'easy_install zope.component'. And there are many packages like this which does not requires the whole Zope 3 (eg: zope.event, zope.deferredimport, zope.testing, zope.testbrowser etc.). Most of them are available from PyPI now ! And zc.buildout [3] is going to change how we develop and deploy Zope 3. If I want to modify (new feature/bug fix) zope.testbrowser I need not to checkout the whole Zope 3 and start coding, rather I can checkout zope.testbrowser and run 'buildout' command. It will setup an environment where I can start working. After 3.4 release, individual packages will be having it's own release cycle...

NIT Calicut [1] students organizing FOSS MEET @ NITC from March 2nd to 4th [2]. I am looking forward to my talk about Zope component architecture during the event. I am an alumni of this college. So, I am really happy to go back to my college. Few days back I started working on my slides and few other materials [3]. [1] http://nitc.ac.in [2] http://www.foss.nitc.ac.in [3] http://zissue.berlios.de/z3/zca.tar.bz2

This is my first blog entry in this year, so, Happy new Year!. I implemented one proposal by Jim Fulton and committed to trunk two weeks back [1]. I moved to bangalore on 1st january as part of my new job at ZeOmega [2]. Then... well, today evening I attended BangPypers meet [3]. Now I am in an internet browsing center near BDA Complex at Banasankari 2nd Stage in Bangalore. This is for the first time I am coming to Bangalore. I want to write more about this place and life. OK, will do it later. [1] http://wiki.zope.org/zope3/LoadingConfigurationFromTheZopeAppEgg [2] http://www.zeomega.com [3] http://bangpypers.org/

(Disclaimer: This is not an official announcement/news) BangPypers [1] is planning a "Bangalore Python Conference" [2] in next February or March. According to Ramdas from DevelopeIQ, there are at least 5000 Pythonistas in Bangalore [3]. This may be true, I know there are two scientific talks going to happen in my near by place, (but I won't be attending it, I am not a scientific guy). Those scientific talks uses Python at "FOSS in Science" (National Workshop on Free Software in Science) on 4-6 January, 2007 [4] (Venue: Union Christian College, Alwaye, Kochi, Kerala) a. Scientific Computing and Data Visualization using Python -Dr. Prabhu Ramachandran, IIT Bombay [5] b. Experimental Physics with Phoenix -Mr. Pramode C.E [6] I think there are many Python programmers all over India. May be we need an "Indian Python Conference" soon. [1] http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/BangPypers [2] http://nrcfosshelpline.in/bangpycon/FrontPage [3] http://tech.groups...

Yesterday, I had a talk on Python at N S S College of Engineering, Palakkad (http://www.nssce.ac.in/) . The talk was arranged by the computer science student's free software community. There were 100+ students. I used the same slides which I prepared for my another talk in last September (http://baijum81.livejournal.com/14649.html) I took almost 1 and 1/2 hours.