In the last few days I’ve posted the Premolo packages to the Python Package Index, or PyPI. Source distributions and Eggs are available.

The easiest way to install, say Alfie, is to use easy_install from setuptools:

easy_install premolo-alfie

I’ll be adding in script support for running Alfie from the command line, but in the meantime you can use this slightly unwieldy incantation:

python -c 'from premolo.alfie import template; from sys import argv; template.main(*argv[1:])'

I’m working mostly on Alfie at the moment, and hoping to get a 1.0 release out the door in the first quarter of 2007.

The world’s most popular database is also the VHS of databases. It gets the job done, but the picture is grainy, the sound wows in and out, and it gets jammed once in a while. That’s what I found out on a recent project with MySQL 4.1.

First, some context.

I recently launched a dating website for Luxembourg. “Oh no!” you scream, “Not another bleedin’ dating website!”. No apologies though; Luxembourg needs some loving, and I was the man for the job.

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