Tres Seavers (of CMF fame), has put online the slides of his talk at PyCon "New Tools for Testing Web Applications with Python", which covers both Selenium and our own Funkload (functional and load tester for web applications).
Thanks Tres!

Read on Brendan Eich blog:

Given the years of development in Python and similarities to ECMAScript in application domains and programmer communities, we would rather follow than lead. By standing on Python’s shoulders we reuse developer knowledge as well as design and implementation experience. The trick then becomes not borrowing too much from Python, just enough to gain the essential benefits: structured value-generating continuations and a general iteration protocol.

And:

The wiki in which I typed that brief "let's be Pythonic" argument quoted above is a docuwiki instance set up for ECMA TG1 by Graydon Hoare, who (I'm thrilled to report) has joined us at Mozilla recently. We hope to make this wiki world-readable at some point not too far off. In the mean time, I will blog with more details about the emerging ES4 language design, and about what features from it will show up when in JS1.7 and higher numbered versions to be shipped in Firefox 2 and 3.

More info here.

Une petite recherche sur Google sur le thème "areva nuxeo", fait ressortir des slides de Christophe Le Cannellier, de la DSI du groupe Areva, sur le thème "retour d'expériences sur le logiciel libre", correspondant à une présentation donnée il y a 6 mois.

On peut y lire notamment (slide 7): "L'identification d'axes de développement prioritaires : - GED : alternative à Documentum avec CPS de Nuxeo.".

L'Histoire (avec un grand "H") était deja en marche... :)

The bugday is going ont now. There are 25 people registered on the #cps IRC channel (on freenode.net), 50% from Nuxeo and 50% from "the community" which is great. I think it's our record attendence so far. The timeline should hopefully show many bug closes by the end of the day.

Xored software has submitted a while ago an Eclipse project proposal for a "Dynamic Languages Toolkit".
The aim of the project is to provide a framework and core components to support "editing, code navigation, debugging, and refactoring of code in dynamic languages", with Python, PHP and Perl as primary targets.
To proceed, this project needs to gather support from other interested parties. If, like me, you believe this project could provide a big boost to Python adoption in the software industry, you should probably get in touch with the guys from xored (info@xored.com) (sorry, I can't find information on the "proper" way to move this proposal forward).

Ara is an advanced search engine for Debian packages developped in the EDOS project (of which we are also taking part).

Out of curiosity, I checked today how many Debian packages were implemented in Python (this is one of the metadata that are searchable using Ara).

The result is: many! Python is a close second behind C, and way ahead other languages (including some who are supposed to eat Python for breakfast!).

• C: 861
• Python: 784
• C++: 234
• PHP: 192
• Ruby: 127
• OCaml: 124
• Java: 59

(Warning1: these results depend on metadata that may not have been set up correctly for every package. Warning2: these number will obviously change over the time.)

Bogdan présentait hier lors du salon Solution Linux notre travail autour du client riche pour CPS: le projet Apogée, basé sur Eclipse RCP, que nous venons notamment de soumettre à la Eclipse Foundation.
Ses transparents (PDF, OpenDocument) sont maintenant disponibles.

Au fait: Nuxeo recrute. Si vous êtes francophone, ressortissant de l'Union Européenne, et que vous souhaitez travailler sur le développement de produits open source comme Zope/CPS et de projets basés sur ces produits, consultez les annonces sur cette page du site Nuxeo.