CBlog 0.1a released!

I took the plunge and released the first public alpha version of CBlog today and registered it in the Python Package Index (aka Cheesehop).

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Identity model problems while upgrading to TurboGears 1.0b2

If you have, like me, a TurboGears app, which was quickstarted with a TG version from before changeset 1603 was included, you might get bitten by the same problem, which hit me, when I tried to upgrade my TurboGears version from 1.0b1 to 1.0b2.

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Controlling a TurboGears application with supervisor - Part II

A few days ago I described how I set up supervisor to control a TurboGears application on Ubuntu. I was using supervisor version 1.0.7, because I wasn't aware of the existence of supervisor2, which supersedes version 1.x and has a lot more features. Since then, I have successfully set up supervisor2 as well and I am now using it exclusively to start/stop and monitor TurboGears apps on my production machine.

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Controlling a TurboGears application with supervisor

Since my shiny, new TurboGears application (yes, you're looking at it!) has progressed so far as to be actually usable, I wanted to deploy it in a "production" enviroment, i.e. with automatic startup at server boot time, restarting when it crashes and the ability to monitor it remotely. I googled a bit for the right tools and found supervisor. This post reports my endeavours in setting it up on my Ubuntu box, which was successfull in the end, but not before some struggling.

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Downtime

The site was down tonight between around midnight until 8:30 h in the morning, due to a hardware failure. The power supply had to be replaced and consequently the host was down for some time without prior notice.

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