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So what best practices should one follow when planning for the configuration of a redistributable CherryPy 2.2 application? That’s not a rhetorical question. I’m hoping to get a bit of brain dumping here from those of you in the CP community that will hopefully make its way into some official documentation.
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Smiling Eli, originally uploaded by dowski.

Posted some new photos to Flickr today. This should appease the grandmothers for a short while longer.

It’s so easy to get through life if you like cold ravioli and black coffee.
- Joseph

I have been thinking lately about how it is still pretty involved to deploy a CherryPy (or any Python web) application to a “production” server (Apache, lighttpd, IIS, etc).
The easiest method that I know at this point is mod_proxy with Apache:

<Virtualhost *>
ServerName cpsite.server.domain
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So I’m teaching my class the basics of HTML and making a web page. We only have two days to cover the basics, so stuff like CSS, Javascript, etc. are pretty much out. I still want to help them understand what a good page/site looks like though, and that is getting harder to [...]

I was reading Luke 7:36-50 the other day, the story of the “sinful” woman washing annointing Jesus’s feet, and it caught my attention.
Jesus said to Simon in verse 47, “… he who has been forgiven little loves little.”
How should one take this statement? Did Simon’s sins need less forgiveness (meaning the woman’s sins were [...]

I finally get it. I feel somewhat hip to WSGI.

A big thanks to Ben Bangert and his article WSGI and WSGI Middleware is Easy, which I like to call WSGI for Dummies

Anyhow, now that I “get it”, I have been messing with WSGI a bit. (read more)

Some of my students have blogs, some do not.