Haciendo trampa: Trucos para programar menos
Sorry, spanish only, since it's a video of me speaking in spanish ;-)
Finalmente, gracias a Juan Rodriguez Monti, video de mi charla "Haciendo trampa: Trucos para programar menos" de PyCon Argentina 2011.
PyCamp Panorama
So you couldn't make it to PyCamp? This is the place. Sorry, I can't post the awesome, so it's just a picture :-)
Nikola-as-a-service demo
One of the things I hacked at during this PyCamp is trying to figure out a nice workflow for Nikola, something that will enable users that are not so technical, to use it.
One first step is Nikola-as-a-service, which is meant for technical users anyway but lays down the infrastructure for this to work semi-nicely.
In the video below, you will see me do this:
Please don't try to use this service yet because:
So, here's the video:
PyCamp 2012 - Day 3
So, day 3 and next-to-last of PyCamp is done.
So: Nikola-as-a-service is an idea where you can keep your blog somewhere, and this service will get the data, and publish a nice site for you.
Here's the current workflow, which is just one of a dozen that can be implemented because this thing is quite simple:
The authenticator
Currently it has twitter authentication. You never need to create an account, just login with some service you already have accounts with. Anything with OAuth will work.
The data provider
Currently, github. Soon, Ubuntu One. Later, who knows. A data provider is something from where we can grab data, and that can notify us (automatically or by having the user click on a button) when we should get that data and rebuild the site.
The renderer
I am doing it with Nikola, of course :-)
The infrastructure
Jobs using Redis and Celery, server app using Flask, rendering using Nikola
How does it work?
You go to github, clone a barebones blog. Do your modifications. Go to nikola-as-a-service, and login via something. Then you give Nikola your github repo's URL, and you get a webhook URL. Go back to github, and configure the webhook.
From that moment on, every time you push to github, your blog is updated :-)
In the future: every time you save to Ubuntu One, your blog is updated. In the further future: Every time you X to Y, your blog is updated.
It's going to be cool :-)
PyCamp 2012: Day 2
Finishing Day 2, here's the update.
That is one large spider, dude.
Tomorrow: will hack all day in the nikola hosting idea.
New Nikola Feature: code listings
This is a new feature in Nikola, my static website and blog generator.
It's aimed at showing pieces of files in the posts, and giving you a link to the full file, does reasonable syntax highlight thanks to pygments, and the syntax for embedding in your posts is not excessively awful, so I can use it for some of my tutorial / book projects.
Here's an example:
.. listing:: md.py python :start-at: def compile_html :end-before: output =
def compile_html(source, dest): try: os.makedirs(os.path.dirname(dest)) except: pass with codecs.open(dest, "w+", "utf8") as out_file: with codecs.open(source, "r", "utf8") as in_file: data = in_file.read()
This is not merged into master yet, but should be soon.
PyCamp Day 1
Going to sleep, so here's a quick rundown of my 1st day at Pycamp:
Now, exhausted, going to bed.
BA Chili Cookoff
Last saturday I attended the 2nd Buenos Aires Chili Cookoff. Lots of people, lots of great food. I was with my kid and he can't eat anything that spicy, but hey, there were cookies :-)
How crowded was it? About three times this crowd was there.
I had little experience with Chili, becuase it's not exactly a common dish around here, so, surprised by the variety, and most were quite nice, and despite exhaustive warnings by the cooks, none was unedibly spicy (the dreaded Zombie Chili which promised to melt my mouth? Kinda sweet and bland.)
Favourite? Lafitte's revenge, which really was a sort of bean-free bourguignon. Also, the smoked veggie chili was quite awesome. And the cookies were killers!
Next year, my wife is talking about cooking for it. I have had her chili, and I trust she can do better than 80% of the contestants this year. Plus I get to beta test her recipes, so win/win for me.
Nikola Ideas for PyCamp
This friday is the beginning of PyCamp, four days of python hacking without distraction or pause. And I want to code a lot. My main target is features for Nikola my static blog generator.
If you are attending PyCamp (or even if you are not), you are welcome to join me in implementing these in a marathon of kickass coding starting this friday and lasting all weekend.
I have a few ideas in my head, but I want more. These are the ones I have, please add more in the comments if you have any:
Want to minimize your CSS? Tidy your HTML? pngcrush your images? apply HTML transformations? Other things I can't imagine?
File pipelines would bring the power of the unix shell to a site generator, letting you connect lego-like filters, some provided, some from the community, into a powerful machinery.
So, is there something you saw in another static blog generator and Nikola lacks? Any cool ideas and want a friendly codebase to hack them on? Do you have any crazy ideas noone would touch with a ten-foot-pole but you think would be awesome to have?
Well, now's a good time to talk about it!
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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