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Day 1

We made it here to piz buin and after plenty of sleep and a little nyquil, I’m ready to go. Currently I’m sitting in a talk by Martijn Faasen about Grok, his rapid application framework that takes the sensibilities of RoR style development combines them with the power of zope3 development. I really like the ideas behind grok, and there is some interest here to improve grok’s wsgi story both by telling it better (documentation, examples, etc) and perhaps some more interesting things with using grokking with paste to generate configuration from the conventions used in a grok/paste package. There are a number of grok based sprint projects, including a jottit like style lightweigt CMS.

The are a number of other interesting things afoot too. I just had a conversation with Bern Dorn about z3.extfile, a system that works with wsgi to rewrite file uploads and downloads as to allow files to be served transparently out of nginx. If he has addressed the security concerns, this could be extremely powerful on the user side and for dealing with things like serving our js and css.

Bernd is also working on testing layers for doing full multiapp application testing, a problem near and dear to our hearts. Another lovely employ is going to be sprinting on js handling specifically and it could be nice to wrap resource handling with z3.extfile and some setuptool love.

Lovely also has a pretty nice transparent http composition and caching solution for z3 using nginx and varnish. On traversal, page elements are either served as includes or in toto depending on whether an element is cached or not. They are also working on a push caching system to avoid ever needing to expire cached elements… all changes are update in varnish when needed.

And a really nice zodb-free paste/z3 setup backended by storm. Bernd walked me some client code and some of the architecture. Really beautiful code. It’s nice to elegant implementations of some of the problems we’ve been thinking about.