The word "triage" in programming has been around for a while, but seem to have gained popularity lately. What it is, is basically a new word for "bugprioritizing", being easier to say and spell. But if we look at what the word comes from, we see that behind this lies a concept that is often forgotten in the usage. "Triage" comes from french and means sorting, so nothing new there. Howerver, ...

Today I had to figure out why something that should not create a write transaction did create one. The first step is easy, you pack the database, do the thing that should not modify anything and look in the "undo" tab of your Zope site. There you'll see if something was written or not, it comes up as an undoable transaction. Then it is a matter of figuring out what happens. ...

It's easter, and only fitting that I play with eggs, so today I have been looking at making python eggs. Eggs are a new way of distributing python software that gets more and more popular. This is mainly because installing it is simple, and because an egg can contain a list of requirements, and the installer will check if these requirements are installed, and if not, it will look ...

Friday and today was finally the days when an official release of the calendar was done after the refactorings I have been doing since december. There are some big internal changes: New i18n support The translation is now done with the Zope3/Five i18n support that comes with Zope 2.9. This means that it no longer requires Localizer, which makes it much easier to use ...

Sometimes you want to do tests that involve a special ZODB. The typical example of this is when you do tests for upgrades. As you can't create an old ZODB programatically without having the old products at hand, the most obvious choice is to use an old ZODB, and try the upgrade on that one. Importing a ZEXP of an old database may be an alternative, but actually using an old ZODB is ...