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Python datetime to RFC2822 Date
Format a Python datetime as a string according to RFC 2822 section 3.3 respecting timezone. Adapted from Python's email.utils.formatdate. As a handy companion, dateutil.parser.parse works quite nicely for parsing them.
def formatrfc2822datetime(value=None, usegmt=False): """Returns a date string as specified by RFC 2822 section 3.3., e.g.: ( Read more... ) -
Peach Pie
On Saturday arinellen, tribaldemon, Paige and I went op shopping and I bought this cute pie dish with a a recipe for cherry pie on the bottom. "Mmm, this pie is delicious, can I have the recipe?" "Sure, just eat the rest!"
Naturally Paige and I had to make peach pie!
Pastry:
- 3 cups self-raising flour
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- 250g butter, cold, chopped
- 2 eggs, lightly beaten
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Google Provisioning API 5-day delete restriction hack
class GoogleUsers(object): """ Pythonic interface to Google Provisioning API. """ ... def __delitem__(self, key): delete_key = 'delete%d%d' % (time.time(), os.getpid()) self.gdata_api.RenameUser(key, delete_key) self.gdata_api.DeleteUser(delete_key) ...
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OpenLDAP 2.3, Python 2.5 and Python-LDAP on Debian Etch
In case anyone else has the misfortune of being stuck on a Debian Etch box with Python 2.5 and finds themselves needing Python-LDAP:
Installing the latest version of Python-LDAP 2.3.x doesn't work. It requires OpenLDAP >= 2.3. Installing an old version of Python-LDAP using Python 2.5 against the OpenLDAP ~= 2.1 libraries available in Etch gave me ( Read more... ) -
Technical musings
Dear Open Source community ( Read more... ) -
More Webmail Thoughts
Thinking about webmail has got me thinking about mail at large.
From what I've read/seen most people doing mail open source use something like Dovecot with Large Storage™. What about when that needs scaling? A popular solution seems to be using a combination of a few approaches to horizontal scaling:
- Partitioning mailboxes using the first letter ( Read more... )
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Webmail
So I've been writing some webmail stuff - braindump time!
After wrestling Horde/IMP, Roundcube, AtMail Open, and so many webmail clients around the place it's not funny the conclusion is that none of them do what I want: modern, fast, efficient webmail. That means gracefully-degrading REST/DRY/AJAX/AcronymOfChoice interface using persistent ( Read more... ) -
Open Source at UWA?
Interesting... A student has recently discovered the University's Open Source Software Policy & Strategy. I found this policy myself recently and started asking why it wasn't being applied more...
The product the student talks about, Zotero, actually looks quite a good alternative to it's proprietary counterpart (EndNote). I imagine managing ( Read more... )