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With the upcoming expected passage of the bailout, I noticed that the draft text was online so I decided to take a look. There's some thoughtful provisions that the first bailout plan was lacking, such as an attempt to prevent financial institutions from making an actual profit with plenty of loopholes so they don't look terribly effective.

I've had an iPhone for about a month now, quite loving it. Today I decided to add some custom ringtones to it, so I went into iTunes and clicked the button to sync ringtones…

Pylons 0.9.7rc1 was released a week ago, unfortunately I haven't had time to actually blog it so better late than never. This is a big step towards the 0.9.7 release, and contains some major changes over 0.

I released Routes 1.9 today, which is another step on the Road to Routes 2.0. Some of the highlights that people will be most interested that I had previously blogged about now available:

I can't help but get totally baffled when I see a business model like this. Yes, that's right, you can pay for the privilege of keeping a copy of your distributed version control system (DVCS) private repositories on someone else's machines.

Phil Jenvey has been making some great progress getting all the components of Pylons running on Jython, and posted a good write-up of the remaining work being done. It's interesting to note that one of the big issues will affect any web framework on Jython, not just Pylons.

So many random musings and theories on Google App Engine, I won't bother musing about it myself, except to mention that Ian Bicking put together instructions for running Pylons on it.

Rails, and Ruby in general has had Capistrano for awhile now to help with the task of deployment and automating builds for servers, and even clusters of servers. Where is something like this for Python?

I'm thrilled to announce that MarkMail now indexes the Pylons-dicuss and Pylons-devel mail lists. For those looking for a great way to search and browser the Pylons mail lists, the MarkMail interface is top-notch.

I've tried several times in the past to try out zc.buildout, a fairly neat sounding package that automates the buildout process for a Python app. The promise of fairly easy to write recipes that can setup external processes like nginx in addition to ensuring my webapp is put together with all the things it needs sounded great.