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Unicode stuff and lxml

This is just a little tip for others, who if like myself, often battle with Unicode issues in python and need a little help.

Python / Plone Developer ...

Netsight are looking for a new full-time developer. Based in Berkeley Square, Clifton, we are one of Bristol's longest running web design and ...

Plone Conference 2010 Wrapup

Well.... after a chance to finally catch some sleep and collect my thoughts, I thought I'd write a post about the Plone Conference we just held here ...

Python Shows Continual Growth ...

Python is a mature, flexible language that allows developers to concentrate on business solutions rather than technology problems, and has shown ...

Zope mindshare at Europython

I'm just on the way home now from Europython 2009 along with some of the rest of the Netsight team. The conference has been massively inspiring, ...

We need a Zope developer!

We have a requirement for an experienced Python/Zope developer to come work on a client project with us here in the UK. The contract will be for ...

Python, PIL and libjpeg on ...

Here's what to do:

BeautifulSoup and extra ...

If you use BeautifulSoup to parse and manipulate HTML, be aware that the prettify() method adds extra whitespace around items which is bad, use ...

PyPI mirror setup

We've now got a PyPI mirror setup for use with easy_install and buildout. The host is pypi.netsight.co.uk. To use it add the following line to the ...

Python Performance Tips

Just a quick read of various strategies for improving python performance. Might be a good read for all developers for things to bear in mind:

Internationalised email ...

Here is how you create international characters in email headers. Useful if people have umlauts and accents in their name:

Async http with python

Say you have a bunch of URLs you want to query at once (aggregating RSS feeds, searching multiple external sites, etc.) normally you would do them ...

Google protocol buffers

Google's system for serialising data to network/disk. Much simpler than XML to process and much quicker as well: