The need to be thin! I don’t consider myself a “power user” when it comes to how I listen to music in general, and most of the time I’ll use whatever media player is installed by default with my distribution. Only recently I started actively tagging and editing metadata about the songs I own, so you could safely say that if I can listen to music while I work, I’m a happy camper!

I’ll make it quick so I can go back to watching TV: Announcing my first attempt at a generic Django Developer Kit, a CentOS (powered by rPath's conary) based software appliance with all you'd need to run a Django project. [caption id=“attachment_829” align=“aligncenter” width=“300” caption=“Django Developer Kit Appliance”][/caption] The current images are built on the development stage, which means it includes the very latest Django 1.2 code line straight from the subversion repository.

Just wanted to update everyone who showed interest in the new release of GNOME Developer Kit I announced yesterday. Based on some preliminary statistics I collected in the (less than) last 24 hours, it seems that the VMware image type got the most download, followed closely by the installable ISO format. I guess that was due to VirtualBox being able to use *.vmdk files and some people opting for the free virtualization tool.

UPDATE: Obrigado Alberto Ruiz por indicar que o VirtualBox pode usar arquivos .vmdk, então as imagens VMware podem ser usadas para esta finalidade. Graças ao incrivel trabalho de `Zhang “Jesse” Sen <http://blog.zhangsen.org/>`__ e Vladimir Melo, um novo lançamento do **GNOME Developer Kit** foi publicado! “O que há de novo”, você pergunta? Tudo, já que todos os pacotes são compilados direto do git.gnome.org! :) Mas isso por si mesmo não é o mais bacana da notícia, mas sim o fato que a imagem final passou por uma “dieta” super rigorosa e no processo perdeu bastante “peso”, passando de 1.

UPDATE: Thanks Alberto Ruiz for pointing out that VirtualBox can use .vmdk files, so the VMware image can be used for that purpose. Thanks to the incredible work of `Zhang “Jesse” Sen <http://blog.zhangsen.org/>`__ and Vladimir Melo, a brand new release of the **GNOME Developer Kit** has been published! “What’s new”, you may ask? Everything, since all packages are built directly from git.gnome.org! :) But that alone is not what makes this release so cool, but the fact that the final image went through a dramatic “diet”, shedding a lot of its “weight” and going from a 1.

[caption id=“attachment_813” align=“alignleft” width=“243” caption=“Python Testing: Beginner’s Guide”][/caption] I was looking for some material on proper python testing in order to improve my QA skills and after some “Googling” came across “Python Testing: Beginner’s Guide”. My first impulse was to hit Amazon and see if they had it and if I could buy an ebook version. Sadly, they only had the “dead tree” version, so I decided to check if the publisher, PackT Publishing, had an alternative.

Estava eu procurando por algum material sobre testes com python para melhorar meu desempenho no trabalho quando, depois de dar uma “Google-ada encontrei o livro “Python Testing: Beginner’s Guide”. Meu primeiro impulso foi de entrar no site da Amazon para checar se eles já o tinham e se era possível comprá-lo no formato ebook. Infelizmente eles só o tinham no formato “dead tree”… então eu decidi checar o site da publicadora , PackT Publishing, para ver se eles tinham alguma alternativa.

Following the tradition of releasing simultaneously with the Transifex project, I’m pleased to present you the Transifex “Magneto” Appliance 0.8! There are just too many cool features to mention here… so I won’t! Just go ahead and read the release notes instead. From Transifex v8.0 featutes As far as the appliance goes, the most important thing to know is that I dropped MySQL and replaced it with Postgresql, so if you’re thinking of updating an existing deployment, you’ll have to backup your data and handle the restoration process.

With the GNOME 2.30 release just around the corner, translators are feverishly working hard to get the desktop completely translated into a multitude of different languages! But unless you’re comfortable building the application you’re trying to translate on your own (or perhaps the entire desktop), you’re pretty much doing what I call “blind translations.” From Screenshots The good news is that you don’t have to do any compiling to play with the very latest GNOME applications!

Yesterday I attended my first TriZPUG meeting to check out Kurt Grandis' talk on Fabric, “a Python library and command-line tool for streamlining the use of SSH for application deployment or systems administration tasks.” It was pretty cool to see a bunch of guys who share the same interests take some time on a Thursday to hang out, drink beers, and chat about python, django, zope, and other stuff. After the original talk was over and some of the other lightening talks that succeeded it was over, a couple of things became very clear to me: