Posts by Category

Interview on Distinguished Devs

Recently, Ben James reached out to me for an interview, to appear on his Distinguished Devs interview series.

Logging in asyncio applications

2 minute read

So you are building an asyncio-based application, and like most production-quality systems, you need to log events throughout. Normally, you’d reach for the ...

Interview on Talk Python to Me

I was interviewed for the excellent Talk Python to Me podcast, in Episode #86 on the subject of Stack Overflow, Python, and my connection to both!

Cross-Python metaclasses

1 minute read

Using a class decorator for applying a metaclass in both Python 2 and 3

Easy in-place file rewriting

2 minute read

Using a context manager to allow painless rewriting of files

Unicode in RTF documents

10 minute read

How to encode unicode codepoints in RTF documents using PyRTF.

Portlets as ESI include

4 minute read

Using ESI includes to cache Plone portlets separately.

The dreaded plone.relations IntId KeyError

3 minute read

When IntIds go missing, the going gets tough. Specifically, plone.app.relations and related packages do not deal gracefully when a relationship source or tar...

Saving the day: recovering lost objects

2 minute read

When a customer discovers over a week later that an important object was accidentially deleted, what do you do?

One cookie please, but hold the pickles

2 minute read

The python pickle module is dangerous, didn’t you know?

Small change, big effect

2 minute read

How changing one line halved the time it took to rename a Plone folder.