When using Axis to send data to a web service, you can set the logger level on org.apache.axis.transport.http.HTTPSender to DEBUG to see what’s going on. 

Anyway be careful: the system will produce a lot of logs, so use it only in developement mode! 

Here’s a sample in log4j.properties: 

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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

I Love Version Control Software, as I like programming languages. So even if “Mercurial, The definitive guide” was published months ago, I asked O’Reilly to review it. The Bryan O’Sullivan book is very compact, and will explain the mercurial world in less than 250 pages.

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

Take a look to this link

http://wiki.pylonshq.com/display/pylonscookbook/Mercurial+for+Subversion+Users

and be  happy!

If you prefer a different introduction http://hginit.com/ is a very good start

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

• http://www.phplist.com/ An open source email campaign manager, with an hosted option The Free account has an unlimited number of contacts,  but a 300 message per month limit.
• http://www.mailchimp.com Commercial hosted solution. Very nice site, with a strong appeal. Free Up to 500 contacts, so the first seems better.

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

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.

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

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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:

As part of the Django 1.2 release process, tonight we've released Django 1.2 beta 1, a preview/testing package that gives a little taste of some of the new features coming in Django 1.2. As with all alpha and beta packages, this is not for production use, but if you'd like to try out some of the new goodies coming in 1.2, or if you'd like to pitch in and help us fix bugs before the final 1.2 release (due in April), feel free to grab a copy and give it a spin.

Looking at the release notes we get

• Object-level permissions
• Permissions for anonymous users

Development sprints for Django 1.2 will also be taking place at PyCon US 2010, on the dedicated sprint days (February 22 through 25).

If you can, it will worth to look at.

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