At Gioorgi.com, after some  thoughts  we decided change the site look & feel to take full advantage of the new WordPress 3. Although the two-column layout is always the central + lateral was considered better to read, it was  stealing too much space to listings prevented attach images. For this reason we switched to new theme, with the possibility of having one or two columns depending on the context of the article, the theme etc.. The new homepage will stabilize towards the beginning of October, with many new stuff on it. The new Gioorgi.com also changes the motto is now a simple “Be-Open-Source”, as always.

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Mercurial, The Definitive Guide

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Willing to switch to Subversion to Mercurial (you will, belive me!)?

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If you need to set up a mailing list, I will suggest two choices:

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To convert an Emacs buffer from DOS line endings to Unix, type C-x [ENTER] f unix [ENTER].

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XAMPP is a very easy to install Apache Distribution for Linux, Solaris, Windows and Mac OS X. The package includes the Apache web server, MySQL, PHP, Perl, a FTP server and phpMyAdmin.

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Do you want develop web applications in a fast, prototype based way using Python?

Follow us and learn how to use web2py….

Step 1: Python 2.6 proper setup

On Linux be sure to install sqlite development library; the following command will help on RedHat:

sudo apt-get install sqlite-devel

for the yum variant see here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/233320/cannot-import-sqlite-with-python-2-6

Install python 2.6, this will avoid the need of additional libraries.

You will also need openssl, so if you haven’t  it issue commands like

sudo apt-get install openssl

and be sure to get also the python wrapper pyOpenSSL hosted here

We happly compiled pyOpenSSL from sources

For more tips and tricks look also at this recipe about Apache Setup, if you need it.

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Example:

http://www.laliluna.de/struts-nested-iteration-tutorial.html

Reference http://struts.apache.org/1.3.10/struts-taglib/dev_nested.html

Django Project, a powerful and clean Python Web Framework, is going to relase 1.2 as  the next milestone at the beginning of March. For the meanwhile, you can grab the Beta2:

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One of the best thing of scripting languages like Python is the ability to fast prototype complex things. In the past ten years, if you like to build distributed application you was forced to use huge and heavily languages like Java.

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