Creating & distributing a new Plone/PyPI product

It’s amazing to see how technologies can be so smoothly integrated these days.  I’m talking, at least in this instance, about how setuptools works with PyPI (and then Plone.org’s Products section) and allows you to distribute your product(s) to the world.  So far, I’ve just got the one — collective.portlet.googleapps — but I’m sure time will pass and I’ll have some more useful things to contribute. Here’s a summary of what I did:

1. Create the product.  ZopeSkel is a wonderful help here for Plone products. [I lie a little bit in …

in Python · Mon 17 August 2009

VLC Has Turned 1!

I may well be late to the party and a little late to celebrate, but I’ve just made the startling discovery that VLC 1.0.0 has now been released.

I’ve been using VLC since (before, actually) I thought there had to more to playing videos than needing extravagent codec packs like K-lite or anything similar to be installed on your system.  It’s been that long that the first version I used, if I remember correctly, wasn’t actually being specifically used for client-side file playback and was supposed to be geared towards video streaming over a …

in Software · Wed 08 July 2009