Nowadays my web presence (such as it is) is split over several sites (Flickr, Delicious, LiveJournal, etc., as well as this site). I want my home page to include pointers to these other sites--such as the Flickr badge I described in the previous article. To do this I need to download feeds from these other sites in order to mix them in to my home page. I wrote a Python program called wfreshen to do this. Read more

I thought I might have a go at familiarizing myself with TurboGears, one of the new Python web frameworks, by writing a new and improved clone of the Picky Picky Game. Step one was verifying that I can upload pictures easily. Step two was getting an identity system put together. Creating a registration page and log-in form and so on is the obvious and dull solution, so I thought I’d have a go at exploiting OpenID instead. Read more

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