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After building my new server capable of running SmartOS, it was time to give it a spin! If you've only built desktop machines, its hard to express how awesome IPMI KVM is.

I've been reading about SmartOS for awhile now and have wanted to build a home server that would let me run VM's with ZFS for the main file-system. Getting rid of my home theater PC and wireless router (which has been annoying me with its flakiness for months) was also a goal.

I've been using tumblr for awhile and while its useful when posting random stuff I should've posted to Facebook instead (images, links, videos, etc.), writing my text in HTML was just icky.

Some folks might not have time to follow the Pylons-discuss mail list, so this might be news to them, but I’m thrilled to announce that the Pylons and repoze.bfg web frameworks are merging.

Ok, I’ll admit it, overly ambitious blog post. So I’ll refine it a little now, this is intended mainly as my thoughts on why as a tool developer (one who makes tools/frameworks that other programmers then use), its a bad idea to implement extensible objects via developer subclassing.

Without further ado, I’m pleased to announced that Pylons 0.10b1 and 1.0b1 are now out. I have not put them on Cheeseshop to ensure they’re not downloaded accidentally. Upgrading / Installing I have updated upgrading instructions here: http://pylonshq.

Ian Bicking recently released a rather interesting package called toppcloud that aims to tackle what I see as a growing need for those of us deploying Python webapps. I was actually interested in easing my own deployment woes before I saw Ian’s announcement about his package, and was halfway through a rather hefty amount of research on automating server deployments with tools like Chef and Puppet, but toppcloud is a bit different.

After seeing more than a few blog posts and packages attempt to provide more advanced caching capability for Django, it occurs to me I should actually just blog how to use Beaker in Django, rather than just keep mumbling about how “Beaker already does that”.

Beaker 1.4 has now been released, and addresses several fairly important bugs. First, the full changelog: Fix bug with hmac on Python 2.4. Patch from toshio, closes ticket #2133 from the TurboGears2 Trac.

I'm trying out Disqus for comments on the blog, for one main reason, I just didn't feel like implementing comments myself. I am somewhat wary of services that seem integral to a blog, like where the comments are, which is why I've been leery of using services like this for some time.