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Monthly Archives: August 2007

The Python Holy Grail

This checkin to python brings a long-awaited (and sorely needed, IMO) enhancement to python: SSL certificate verification support. Once the API support percolates up from socket through the various network libraries in python proper, for the vast majority of developers there will no longer be a need for PyOpenSSL, M2Crypto, or rhnlib.

Python Comment of the Week (Aug 12 2007)

# Assorted functions for various things
Thank you, developers of yore. You’ve made things oh so much clearer to this lowly maintenance programmer.

BarCampRDU 2007

BarCampRDU is going on now at Red Hat.
There are a lot of good topics (distributed version control,  grails, juggling), and plenty of free stuff. Looks like it will be a great day.
Check out the photos or blog posts.