Factoids for the 'knoba' bot in #pylons

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ak Authkit - a WSGI authentication middleware (authkit.org). In reality it's badly documented and hardly usable. See http://wiki.pylonshq.com/display/pylonscookbook/Authentication+and+Authorization instead
authkit a WSGI middleware (not really) authentication/authorization toolkit (authkit.org), in reality it's badly documented and hardly usable - see: repoze.who instead/http://www.letsyouandhimfight.com/2009/10/28/pylons-opinion-dont-use-authkit/
autoload To be able to autoload tables through SQLAlchemy see http://docs.pythonweb.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=9011217
benstalk a talk about WSGI, web frameworks and pylons at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-872784530622495809 / slides are at http://groovie.org/files/WSGI_Presentation.pdf
book In 2008 there will be a Pylons book published by Apress. See http://wiki.pylonshq.com/display/pysbook
bug Bugs can be submitted through the project's Trac issue tracker at http://pylonshq.com/project/pylonshq/report
chairos He tries
cheatsheet Signum's cheat sheet which can be found at http://wiki.pylonshq.com/display/pylonsmisc/Pylons+Cheatsheet
concepts The big picture of Pylons is briefly explained at http://docs.pythonweb.org/display/pylonscookbook/Concepts+of+Pylons
dance I WILL STAB YOU IN THE FACE
desmaj a great fan of knoba
django a(nother) famous Python web framework that reinvented a lot of wheels - see http://www.djangoproject.com/
dwim do what I mean
factoids the available factoids for the #pylons channel can be viewed at http://workaround.org/f=pylons
formencode a validation and form generation package by Ian Bicking. The validation can be used separately from the form generation. See http://formencode.org/
forms There are multiple ways to handle HTML forms. See http://wiki.pylonshq.com/display/pylonsdocs/Form+Handling
frameworks a large list of Python frameworks is available from http://wiki.python.org/moin/WebFrameworks
gettingconfig If you want to access your .ini configuration file see http://docs.pythonweb.org/display/pylonscookbook/Getting+Data+from+the+Configuration+File
google i dont have time to google!
ibeodb ik ben een ontzettend dom blondje or in english: I am a very stupid blond person (uncommonly used for a password recovery feature)
internet SERIOUS BUSINESS
intro Online Pylons book: http://pylonsbook.com/, Quickwiki Tutorial: http://pylonshq.com/docs/en/0.9.7/tutorials/, Screencast: http://www.pylonscasts.com/2009/01/pylons-097-screencast-1/
jquery a javascript library that allows to add javascript to HTML pages with little code (replacement for script.aculo.us)
knoba a Supybot-based IRC bot run by Signum to help recite factoids
ltbarcly ruff, tuff and dangeruss
mailinglist the project's mailing list at http://googlegroups.com/group/pylons-discuss/subscribe
map the inofficial Pylons users map - see http://wiki.pylonshq.com/display/pylonsmisc/Pylons+users+world+map
massimodipierro He tries harder
meaningoflife 42
modeltags a new feature introduced in Webhelpers version 0.6. It created HTML INPUT tags automatically from e.g. ORM objects thus saving time creating CRUD applications.
modules The module reference can be found at http://pylonshq.com/docs/module-index.html
notbound if you get This Compiled object is not bound to any engine errors see: http://docs.pythonweb.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=8618062
ormbaseclass a base class for SQLAlchemy object-relational model classes. See: http://www.sqlalchemy.org/trac/wiki/UsageRecipes/GenericOrmBaseClass - it's useful to update ORM objects from e.g. self.form_result
pastebin If you want to show us parts of your source code please use the pastebin at http://pylonshq.com/pasties/new
paula brillant
pebkac A Dilbert acronym - 'Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair'
pjenvey_ the hero who fixed SQLAlchemy logging in the paster-shell
profiling If you want to profile your Pylons application consider reading http://wiki.pylonshq.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=11174728
pylons a Python-based web framework that is flexible and fun (see http://pylonshq.com)
pylonsauthkit a good introduction on using Pylons with Authkit and users/roles in a database can be found at http://pylonshq.com/project/pylonshq/wiki/PylonsWithAuthKitDatabase
pylonsbook Disclaimer: authkit author wrote it.
repository The development of Pylons happens in the Mercurial repository at http://pylonshq.com/hg/pylons-dev/
repoze.who a WSGI middleware (really) authentication only toolkit ( http://docs.repoze.org/who/ ), documentation is a little lacking but it's way better than Authkit - also: roll your own
rest sucks
sqlalchemy a nice SQL toolkit and object-relational mapper. For use with Pylons see http://wiki.pylonshq.com/display/pylonsdocs/Using+SQLAlchemy+with+Pylons
sunru clueless
unittesting http://docs.pythonweb.org/display/pylonsdocs/Unit+Testing
virtualenv A sandboxing software found at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv/ written by Ian Bicking. It allows you to deploy a Pylons application on a system with the exact dependencies needed. A good solution for stable distributions like Ubuntu/Debian.
warezlist 'priv msging warez list to you'
webhepers helpful modules to generate HTML and do everyday tasks (http://docs.pylonshq.com/thirdparty/webhelpers.html)
werkzeug something that has something to do with web development and python
wiki The (new) Pylons wiki is found at http://docs.pythonweb.org/the project's wiki that is located at http://wiki.pylonshq.com/
windows sux
workingenv A sandboxing software by Ian Bicking that was superceded by virtualenv (see !virtualenv).
wysiwtf the abbreviation of what-you-see-is-what-the-fuck - a term taken from userfriendly.org
zepolen a rather confrontational person/awesome

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