http://mikenaberezny.com Tue, 06 May 2008 01:17:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Python has a nice module in the standard library called shlex that parses strings as a Unix shell would. Here's a Python interpreter session demonstrating its usage: >>> import shlex >>> shlex.split('foo "bar baz" qux') ['foo', 'bar baz', 'qux'] It's useful for creating your own mini-languages or external DSLs that need to parse ... http://mikenaberezny.com/2008/04/28/parsing-quoted-strings-in-ruby/ The OSCON 2008 website has published its talk schedule. I'll be giving two talks at OSCON this year; one on the Python track and one on the PHP track. Supervisor as a Platform I will quickly introduce you to Supervisor and the immediate benefits of running your server processes under it. ... http://mikenaberezny.com/2008/04/02/speaking-at-oscon-2008/ I'm pleased to have been able to contribute a recipe to Mike Clark's new book, Advanced Rails Recipes. The concept presented in my recipe, "Fail Early", is that you can use initializers to prevent your application from starting up under certain conditions. Rails applications typically run under persistent ... http://mikenaberezny.com/2008/03/25/fail-early/ At PyCon 2008, I gave a talk titled Supervisor as a Platform together with Chris McDonough. Our talk was very well attended and the audience even included Python creator Guido van Rossum. We received a lot of positive feedback about our recent work and I suspect we picked ... http://mikenaberezny.com/2008/03/20/pycon-2008-wrap-up/ Rails for PHP Developers is a new website that's a companion to the new book by the same name. Like the book, it's aimed towards PHP developers who have an interest in Rails and Ruby. The website features articles that alternate between Ruby and PHP focus, so PHP ... http://mikenaberezny.com/2008/02/18/new-rails-for-php-developers-website/ Supervisor Twiddler is an RPC extension for Supervisor that allows Supervisor's configuration and state to be manipulated in ways that are not normally possible at runtime. Changes in release 0.2: Renamed addProcessToGroup() to addProgramToGroup(). The method now supports program definitions with numprocs > 1 and will add ... http://mikenaberezny.com/2008/02/17/supervisor-twiddler-02/ I thought it might be interesting to mix things up a bit by occasionally posting about some neat hardware. Last week, I purchased the RTV VEG. This device converts composite video to VGA and also has a TV tuner. The photo above shows my Commodore Plus/4 computer ... http://mikenaberezny.com/2008/02/16/commodore-plus4-on-lcd/ Horde/Yaml is a PHP 5 library for easily working with YAML data. This is the package's first stable release. Chuck Hagenbuch started the library as an adaptation of Spyc around six months ago. Since then, he and I have been quietly using and improving it. Along the way, ... http://mikenaberezny.com/2008/01/08/hordeyaml-10-released/ I'll be presenting at PyCon 2008, together with Chris McDonough. Supervisor is a tool for managing UNIX processes. Supervisor starts arbitrary processes at its own startup and allows otherwise unprivileged users to start, stop and restart its subprocesses and view its subprocess' logs using a command line or web interface. Other ... http://mikenaberezny.com/2007/12/21/supervisor-at-pycon-2008/ I was pleased to learn today that I am a winner in the Rails Hackfest. The Hackfest is a contest where your ranking is primarily determined by how many of your patches get accepted into Rails core during the contest month. http://mikenaberezny.com/2007/12/05/rails-hackfest-winner/