http://blog.redinnovation.com What it feels like working in Web 2.0 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:23:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Recently I found out that the standard library support for date and time calculations in Python is not quite as able as I needed. It turned out that the superficial leanness and simplicity of Python's datetime module bit hard back sooner than you expected. Unfortunately, looking for replacements, I found ... http://blog.redinnovation.com/2008/06/30/relativity-of-time-shortcomings-in-python-datetime-and-workaround/ This is my first post on our company blog and I thought I'd tell you something about LogMan, which is developer's utility for getting logging messages from Symbian device over a USB cable. It is written by me and mostly on my own time. I started the project because I ... http://blog.redinnovation.com/2008/06/23/logging-with-logman/ Knowledge does hurt. Today I had my sweet cup of WTF. We are developing a medical database based on Plone 3.1. It uses very advanced AJAX framework called KSS - basically you can avoid the pain of writing pure Javascript by crafting special CSS like stylesheets which bind server-side Python ... http://blog.redinnovation.com/2008/06/12/plone-kss-javascript-field-validation-and-the-cup-of-wtf/ I wrote this little script as a mental exercise and to prove the power of Python programming language. If anyone accepts the challenge, I'd like to see submissions in other programming langauges ;) For the foreigners: this is the best comic in Finland, so I hope you'll get translations soon! It ... http://blog.redinnovation.com/2008/05/07/viivi-wagner-strip-scaper/ A common question for Python for Series 60 newcomers is how to build standalone Symbian applications from Python source code. We have been using Makefile based toolchain internally. I describe it in this picture, I didn't bother to add thumbnail for the image, since it's a 3400 pixels wide diagram. The ... http://blog.redinnovation.com/2008/04/19/pys60-application-release-build-toolchain/ I want to use Zope 3 interface package to write component architecture i.e. have a plug-ins easily in Python. Zope 3 interfaces are very handy and, which cannot be conducted from the name, are available outside Zope too. From my prior experiences I know that Zope 3 interfaces package is ... http://blog.redinnovation.com/2008/04/18/the-good-the-bad-and-the-zope/ With Web 2.0, Javascript has gained a great foothold in the web development. Javascript, which was originally indented to be few lines of interactivity here and there, is now used for full-blown UI frameworks like Ext JS and Dojo. Because its toy background, Javascript is not the easiest language to ... http://blog.redinnovation.com/2008/03/27/verifying-javascript-files-with-jslint-from-eclipse-ide/ Learning new development environments and languages can be quite fun, but sometimes it turns out just plain frustrating. Especially so if you are trying to learn something that is still in its beta stage. This time it was Adobe AIR and Flex 3. The program in question required storing date and ... http://blog.redinnovation.com/2008/03/14/a-short-story-about-why-to-rtfm/ Edit: Made correction to iPhone SDK price/added self-signed option I have been recently involved in Symbian development. Unfortunately, I could say. Symbian has made the life of Symbian developers headacheful. The main problem is that the application signing is made unnecessary cumbersome. Getting a required developer certificate to just to run ... http://blog.redinnovation.com/2008/03/14/symbian-digging-its-own-grave-with-symbiansignedcom/ I just read waffle's blog entry about iPhone SDK release. Looks like Objective C is the only supported language by default (I am just downloading SDK).The comments speculated that embedding Python is not possible due to size constraints. Bollocks I say =) Python for Series 60 phones is 500 kb ... http://blog.redinnovation.com/2008/03/07/sdk-released-python-in-iphone/