Python

According to my last posts about  and Python to JavaScript Compiler, I have found lots of effort to bring the dream come true. Let me summarize them.

Python to JavaScript Compiler

According to  which is designed for transforming Java to JavaScript, I have also found Python to JavaScript Compiler. It has not been finished or actively developed but it may be useful for all python developers including me.

BTQueue 0.1.1 451

I am very happy to announce the release of BTQueue 0.1.1 at release number 451. In this version, I focused on fixing race condition, handling error and integrating to external frontend. There is one change that you have to know. resume command now just changes any state of given ID to waiting for the next scheduling. If you want to force it to run immediately, you have to use option "-f". Two commands are introduced in this version: du (disk usage) and df (disk free). These commands are to help integration with external frontend with quota support. Lastly, you are able to see latest error message again.

Updated SAP RFC for Perl, Python, and Ruby

Beware! SAP RFC for various scripting languages has been released new version.

Scripting the SAP

SAP is one of the most biggest player in ERP market. It has its own language called ABAP/4. Since naturally, SAP R/3, the main product line, is 3-tier architecture, says database, server, and client, you it also has its own client aka SAP GUI. However, the world has changed to web so SAP pushed lots of effort to provide programming interface in popular languages; Java and .NET. IMHO, Java and .NET are only suitable for large enterprise and they absolutely consume resources. You need big machine to run Java and .NET. By the way, the user’s requirements are many more simpler. They just want a simple web interface to back-office data, some of them are in DBMS and some of them are in SAP R/3. SAP Enterprise Portal is too big for this situation. PHP is just enough.

Blog on Plone in 2 minutes

Have you ever watched screencasts of Ruby on Rails to create a weblog site in 15 minutes and TurboGears to create a wiki site in 20 minutes? If you haven’t, give them a try. This is not a language war. I just want to explain my principle of how to develop a web site effectively. First of all, I will summarize the result of comparison of those two movies.