If you are Slovene happening to read this blog and programming/using/loving/liking/dreaming Python you should know that there is a new Slovene Python user group around – SOUP (Slovene Orthodox Users of Python).
Actually i don’t think there was an “old” python user group in the first place, so that makes it the first Python user group 
On freebsd-questions mailing list someone asked why was linux-flashplugin removed from the ports.
Well, the answer was that it was removed because according to Macrom .. oops .. Adobe End User License Agreement it is explicitly forbidden to run the Flash Player on FreeBSD (or on any unauthorized operating system).
See License Agreement, section 3.a.D.
The question now is, must i remove it from my system or not as i have installed it before the license was changed? (when and why was it changed, by the way?)
I think this one does not need comments …
One day, when i grow up … i will “speak” all of these 
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I wish to all of you a great 2006!
I think i’ve found my perfect python web framework! Meet Django.
What you get?
(quoted from the official site)
Object-relational mapper – define your data models entirely in Python. You get a rich, dynamic database-access API for free
URLDispatcher – design pretty URLs with no framework-specific limitations. Be as flexible as you like.
Template system – Use Django’s powerful and extensible template language to separate design, content and Python code.
Cache system – Hook into memcached or other cache frameworks for super caching — as granularly as you need.
Automatic admin interface -Save yourself the tedious work of creating interfaces for people to add and update content. Django does that automatically.
Give it a try, read the overview and go through the tutorial. I was impressed
That’s a nice one!
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That time of year is slowly approaching.. What time of year, you may ask? Well, since last October, i am back to university (this time i am really finishing my BCS degree, honest) and the exams are round the corner I am actually enjoying studying more than i did years ago.. and (this sounds kinda scary, i know) i am kind of looking forward to the exams )
Anyway, the point of the post was something else: finally, after more than a year of thinking about it, i actually took the time to go and pass the Sun Java Programmer Certification exam… yes, i passed! w00t! (scored 83%)
So, here’s another certification to add to the collection: Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform 1.4.
Next, please…
It’s been ages since my last post but these things are big enough that woke me up and made me blog about them:
1) You can compile actionscript 2 files into swf without the Flash IDE.
I just installed MTASC (Motion-Twin Actionscript2 Compiler) on my linux box and compiled my first swf movie, how cool is that?!
The compiler is opensource and free, it is a command line compiler so you can integrate it with your fav editor, it is actually quite simple to install (for win there is no installation whatsoever, for linux you just need to make sure that you have OCaml installed) and according to the official page, it is faster than the MM compiler.
The least you can do is try it out
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2) There is a new kind of generic documentation generator in the hood: Naturaldocs
Aral from Flashant has started a campaign to bring support for Actionscrip 2 PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE into Naturaldocs. Read more deatils here.
3) Actually, this has been news for some time now, but i find it extremelly important for rich application development (and i haven’t blogged about it when it was fresh news) so i am goin to point it out here too:
The great guys and gals from Ariaware have released ARP, an open-source pattern-based framewrok for Flash and Flex RIA development.
Is Flash bigger than ever or what?
For some time now i’ve been thinking of changing my blog engine (currently it is Movable Type) to something else.
Why? .. well, i don’t like the way you edit templates in MT and the comment-spammers are really annoying and i don’t think Todd will ever upgrade the current MT version (and, don’t worry Todd, i don’t even want to )
So, while waiting for Todd to finish up his CF blogging system (and then pass it on to me ) I have narrowed down my choice to two options: Textpattern and PyBlosxom.
I like Textpattern for its ease of use and configuration and being very flexible. On the other hand, PyBlosxom is written in Python and as such very appealing (oportunity to learn more Python! 
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Does any of you know of other (possibly Python) blog systems worth taking a look?