[web2py] pyStack - Stack Overflow "clone" update

2010-09-06 Thread Julio Schwarzbeck
Pleased to inform the community that I finally had some time to heavily work on one of my web2py pets, pyStack is coming along quite nicely and it is being developed as we speak, pyStack is a SO "inspired" system developed in the best web framework available for Python nowadays :) pyStack aims to

[web2py] Re: pyStack - Stack Overflow "clone" update

2010-09-06 Thread Julio Schwarzbeck
g like that for Brazilian/portuguese community in > web2pybrasil.com.br > > 2010/9/6 Julio Schwarzbeck > > > > > Pleased to inform the community that I finally had some time to > > heavily work on one of my web2py pets, pyStack is coming along quite > > nicely and it i

[web2py] Re: pyStack - Stack Overflow "clone" update

2010-09-06 Thread Julio Schwarzbeck
of a headache, I am definitely open for ideas, though, Thanks! Julio On Sep 6, 4:45 pm, mdipierro wrote: > really nice. Can you tell us how you implement search? > > On Sep 6, 5:40 pm, Julio Schwarzbeck wrote: > > > Pleased to inform the community that I finally had som

[web2py] Re: pyStack - Stack Overflow "clone" update

2010-09-06 Thread Julio Schwarzbeck
Indeed, and happy to do it. On Sep 6, 6:20 pm, mdipierro wrote: > Will you make it open source? > > On Sep 6, 7:58 pm, Julio Schwarzbeck wrote: > > > Interesting Question :) - Well, since I am using both MySQL and > > Postgres, I have implemented Full-text searching for

[web2py] Re: Nice Hosting Company Option

2010-10-05 Thread Julio Schwarzbeck
Just thought I'd chime in.. I recently moved pyforum.org and my blog, techfuel.net to a "micro" instance at amazon (Link: http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2010/09/09/announcing-micro-instances-for-amazon-ec2/), it is Amazon's new "pet" which is a relatively small server (full root, you ha

[web2py] Re: pyforum security and future

2010-10-13 Thread Julio Schwarzbeck
Hi this is Julio, pyforum author. I just wanted to clarify a few things here. On Dec 9, 2009, I was contacted by this "Nam Nguyen" from bluemoon.com.vn (Viet Nam) domain. This gentleman stated that he had "discovered" several XSS vulnerabilities in pyforum, and in orderto "disclose" them

[web2py] Re: Scalability of web2py?

2010-11-29 Thread Julio Schwarzbeck
And this without considering "vendor lock-in". web2py can run on a variety of platforms such as windows, macs. Linux and others, same goes for the selection of the back-end database. Much more flexibility under web2py in my opinion and prototyping is much faster in python. On Nov 29, 10:05 am, mdi

[web2py] Re: Scalability of web2py?

2010-11-30 Thread Julio Schwarzbeck
Even though I "get" your point, I ffeel that putting your eggs in the MS basket is a really bad idea. Yes, one can "learn" from these frameworks, C# has come a long way to be a relatively "cool" language (which incidentally is because it has been "pythonized" during his later incarnations, if anyon

[web2py] Say hello to pyStack.com

2010-12-18 Thread Julio Schwarzbeck
Dear community, I am pleased to inform the release the first (beta) revision of pyStack.com, an open source questions and answers web application loosely based on the successful stack overflow web site. pyStack aims to be a simple to use Q&A app with all the fat trimmed off and at the same time ea

[web2py] Re: Say hello to pyStack.com

2010-12-19 Thread Julio Schwarzbeck
t; them with the LMS I am working on and we could make a kick ass suite. > > Please email me privately because I have something confidential to > say. ;-) > > Massimo > > On Dec 18, 11:47 pm, Julio Schwarzbeck wrote: > > > Dear community, > > > I am pleased t

[web2py] Re: Say hello to pyStack.com

2010-12-19 Thread Julio Schwarzbeck
te. > > Please email me privately because I have something confidential to > say. ;-) > > Massimo > > On Dec 18, 11:47 pm, Julio Schwarzbeck wrote: > > > Dear community, > > > I am pleased to inform the release the first (beta) revision of > > pyStack.com, an open sou

[web2py] Re: Say hello to pyStack.com

2010-12-19 Thread Julio Schwarzbeck
On Dec 19, 10:55 am, Anthony wrote: > > Also, could use some tooltips with the icons that appear under some of > the questions. > > Anthony > Totally agreed, I was relying on the alt property of the IMG tag but apparently that does not work in all browsers.

[web2py] Re: Say hello to pyStack.com

2010-12-19 Thread Julio Schwarzbeck
veral changes in the pipe (multi auth methods, UI changes, edit capabilities and administrative section), if you need SysAdmin role please let me know and I'll give it to you so you can see what an admin can see. Thanks, Julio On Dec 18, 9:47 pm, Julio Schwarzbeck wrote: > Dear commun

[web2py] New QA-Stack version released (beta)

2010-12-24 Thread Julio Schwarzbeck
Hi Folks, thanks for testing the site, I've released the third beta of qa-stack, this release includes JANRAIN login, use your google, yahoo, openid/myopenid accounts to log in into the site, and feel free to post test questions and answers, there are still many things to work out but at least you

[web2py] Re: web2py-related thread at reddit

2011-01-07 Thread Julio Schwarzbeck
Who is http://www.reddit.com/user/av201001 I want to marry her... Hold on.. is he a dude? argh .. nevermind ;) On Jan 7, 7:20 am, Anthony wrote: > On Friday, January 7, 2011 2:58:14 AM UTC-5, cjrh wrote: > > > On Jan 7, 12:06 am, Anthony wrote: > > > In case anyone is interested... > > > >http:

[web2py] Re: new web2py issue tracking app

2011-09-22 Thread Julio Schwarzbeck
Argh!, Massimo, as usual you beat me to it :P, but oh well, the more the merrier, here are a couple of samples from my "skunk works", to be available soon: http://static.techfuel.net/track1.png --> (Another) Issue Tracker #1 http://static.techfuel.net/track2.png --> (Another) Issue Tracker #2 http

[web2py] Interesting Thread on the web2py vs the usual suspect

2011-10-02 Thread Julio Schwarzbeck
Well, decided to leave a comment regarding misconceptions (what else is new) on web2py when I was blasted back with all the "facts" on why web2py -=sucks=-, I've responded to them but there could be good points on his side too (I am almost never confrontative unless they play the condescending card

[web2py] Re: Encryption/Decryption Modules

2011-10-04 Thread Julio Schwarzbeck
Hi Richard, Can you be a bit more specific, do you want to encrypt "data" in web2py sounds a little vague, do you want to encrypt the contents of the information stored in a database? - or is it flat files, or other kind of information? What OS are you on? - Are you in Windows, Linux, OS X, Solar

[web2py] Say hello to i-Track

2011-11-30 Thread Julio Schwarzbeck
Folks, I've just released i-Trac i-Track is a simple issue/bug tracking system developed in web2py, it is Open Source Software released under the Simplified BSD License, the site is "live" at: http://www.i-track.org/ There is a "demo" site also at http://demo.i-track.org/ feel free to use to te

[web2py] Re: Say hello to i-Track

2011-12-01 Thread Julio Schwarzbeck
I am open to suggestions on how plug-in integrations, definitely. On Dec 1, 1:24 am, Vidul Petrov wrote: > Nice project, thank you. > > Do you intend to create plugin system for it (like Trac plugins)? > > On Dec 1, 8:38 am, Julio Schwarzbeck wrote: > > > > >

[web2py] Re: Say hello to i-Track

2011-12-01 Thread Julio Schwarzbeck
Whoa, that link set is not supposed to be there :) - Nice catch, I'll add it as a bug! - Thanks for spotting this Stefaan On Dec 1, 1:52 am, stefaan wrote: > An impressive piece of work :) > > I did spot a buglet though: the blue links on top of the contact form > athttp://demo.i-track.org/itrack

[web2py] Re: Say hello to i-Track

2011-12-01 Thread Julio Schwarzbeck
Totally agree, Anthony, let me see what is the best way of tacking this, I am planning several enhancements, obviously a stripped-down mobile version and better CSS integration, I agree the font could be a bit larger, and the overall width of the app shortened somehow. On Dec 1, 6:54 am, Anthony

[web2py] Re: Say hello to i-Track

2011-12-01 Thread Julio Schwarzbeck
ulone wrote: > Very nice julio. Is the trac in web2py. > > 2011/12/1 Julio Schwarzbeck > > > > > > > > > > > Folks, > > > I've just released i-Trac > > > i-Track is a simple issue/bug tracking system developed in web2py, it > > is

[web2py] web2py in OS X - Where to put custom applications

2011-04-21 Thread Julio Schwarzbeck
Hi folks, I am wondering what is the "suggested approach" of placing the custom applications on an OS X web2py installation. I am a longtime Linux and OS X user, and I use my Mac for day to day work, and use a VM (Fusion) with a Linux Image (Fedora) in which I run web2py, mysql, python, etc, and u

[web2py] Re: web2py in OS X - Where to put custom applications

2011-04-21 Thread Julio Schwarzbeck
Hmm, interesting pbreit, hadn't thought about it, I will probably do that also, especially since I'd like to debug the web2py app itself (via Wing IDE for example), thanks for the comment! Julio On Apr 21, 11:03 am, pbreit wrote: > I just switched from the .app to source and am much happier. But

[web2py] Re: web2py in OS X - Where to put custom applications

2011-04-21 Thread Julio Schwarzbeck
Apr 21, 11:07 am, Julio Schwarzbeck wrote: > Hmm, interesting pbreit, hadn't thought about it, I will probably do > that also, especially since I'd like to debug the web2py app itself > (via Wing IDE for example), thanks for the comment! > > Julio > > On Apr 21,

[web2py] Re: web2py in OS X - Where to put custom applications

2011-04-22 Thread Julio Schwarzbeck
I was a little skeptical at first to "pollute" the Mac environment with external python packages (i.e. I use pygments for my qa-stack.com application) this is the reason why I was relying in my (Linux) VM image for all the dirty work, in my reality, in Linux it is easier to manage different package

[web2py] Importing Pygments from App Failing

2011-04-25 Thread Julio Schwarzbeck
I am having this problem in 1.95.1 in OS X: DeepSpace9:web2py julio$ python web2py.py -S qastack web2py Enterprise Web Framework Created by Massimo Di Pierro, Copyright 2007-2011 Version 1.95.1 (2011-04-25 17:55:16) Database drivers available: SQLite3, pymysql WARNING:web2py:import IPython error;

[web2py] Re: Importing Pygments from App Failing

2011-04-26 Thread Julio Schwarzbeck
I guess it'll be trunk [?] - from hg clone https://web2py.googlecode.com/hg/ On Apr 25, 10:28 pm, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > trunk or stable? > > On Apr 25, 11:07 pm, Julio Schwarzbeck wrote: > > >

[web2py] Re: How to best create unique strings in python...

2011-04-29 Thread Julio Schwarzbeck
Try this: import random import string print ''.join(random.choice(string.ascii_letters + string.digits) for letter in xrange(8)) Output: >>> print ''.join(random.choice(string.ascii_letters + string.digits) for >>> letter in xrange(8)) MRWFo6Fv >>> print ''.join(random.choice(string.ascii_lette

[web2py] Re: How to best create unique strings in python...

2011-04-29 Thread Julio Schwarzbeck
font you use they can be confused. It may also be a good idea to > > only use upper case and numbers. > > > chars = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNPQRSTUVWXYZ12345678" or > > > chars = 'abcdefghijkmnpqrstuvwxyz23456789" > > > and > > > ''.join(r

[web2py] Re: something like this google group

2011-06-02 Thread Julio Schwarzbeck
Hi Folks, Sorry I have been a bit busy with qa-stack lately, there were some security issues that I had to take care with pyforum that is why I removed the code from the main site, all this has been fixed, but I need to upload the latest code to bitbucket (which is where qa-stack is also), I'll up

[web2py] Re: Limitation in template system

2011-07-19 Thread Julio Schwarzbeck
On Jul 13, 3:42 am, Miguel Lopes wrote: > I think this behavior I've just found is worth sharing. > > Templates don't honor the if statement that conditionally "try" to include > or exclude template blocks. > I've just detected this (in 1.96.4 I think) and upgrade to 1.97.1 and the > issue/behavio

[web2py] New release of pyForum

2011-08-17 Thread Julio Schwarzbeck
Folks, After a hiatus of almost 9 months I finally finished a brand new version of pyForum, it was a core component re-design, PEP-8 compliance issues, and many issues and bug fixes completed. The system supports Janrain and local accounts, please read the latest discussions there if you had a lo

[web2py] Re: New release of pyForum

2011-08-18 Thread Julio Schwarzbeck
Fixed, thanks. On Aug 18, 3:22 am, elffikk wrote: > you have a wrong spelled link onhttps://bitbucket.org/speedbird/pyforum, > please fixhttp://pyfroum.org/to  http://pyforum.org/

[web2py] Re: New release of pyForum

2011-08-18 Thread Julio Schwarzbeck
Can you send me you login (via PM) I see others (Bruno) have been able to log in and post and reply without apparent problems. Thanks, julio On Aug 18, 4:12 am, LightDot wrote: > Test forum onhttp://pyforum.org/is not working. Tickets are issued when > trying to post in an existing thread or wh

[web2py] Re: New release of pyForum

2011-08-18 Thread Julio Schwarzbeck
pyForum is a complete application, it is not a plug-in, it purposely has a minimalistic stylesheet in order to be easier to adapt to your own apps or framework, it authentication works very similar to web2py's however, I abstracted it into "auth.py" (CustomAuthentication class) and used a minimal s

[web2py] Re: New release of pyForum

2011-08-18 Thread Julio Schwarzbeck
That my friend, is indeed a bug, the forum administrator can allow anonymous users to post to forums by specifying a setting in the administration section, you tried to post a message on a valid anonymous-enabled forum and it failed, I am fixing that right now.. Thanks for the (unintentional) QA :)

[web2py] Re: New release of pyForum

2011-08-18 Thread Julio Schwarzbeck
Bug is smashed and project updated in bitbucket, can diff the files if you want to see what changed. Thanks! On Aug 18, 10:20 am, LightDot wrote: > You're welcome :) > > I have noticed pyForum quite a while a go and have been meaning to look > closer at the code for ages - but never got to it. S

[web2py] Re: New release of pyForum

2011-08-18 Thread Julio Schwarzbeck
My pleasure my friend, more is to come.. On Aug 18, 9:45 am, Daniel Aguayo wrote: > 2011/8/17 Julio Schwarzbeck > > > > > > > > > > > Folks, > > > After a hiatus of almost 9 months I finally finished a brand new > > version of pyForum, it w

[web2py] Re: New release of pyForum

2011-08-18 Thread Julio Schwarzbeck
gt; > Thanks in advance and congratulations! > > mart :) > > On Aug 18, 1:44 pm, Julio Schwarzbeck wrote: > > > > > > > > > My pleasure my friend, more is to come.. > > > On Aug 18, 9:45 am, Daniel Aguayo > > wrote: > > > > 2011/8/