The last big project I’m working on for Zenoss is an OpenOffice-to-Plone publisher. Specifically, for the Zenoss Guide (combined admin and user manuals). The Guide is maintained in OpenOffice format, but in addition to .sxw/.doc and .pdf formats, they want to publish as HTML, where each section of the doc gets its own page in [...]

Before I tell you why, how about a story first?
When I was a kid, my parents bought a KayPro II so that they could use the spreadsheet program for financials and my dad could write a medical text book. I, of course, discovered the BSD games (BASIC clones) that came with it almost immediately. All [...]

Well, not really. But it if did, it’s okay by me: I really like LDAP. I’ve only had to work with it a little bit in the past, but I have been in deep LDAP immersion for the past 2 months. The thing that really pi**es me off is PHP. Now, that crap DID eat [...]

Zenoss along with Google and others, is going to be the Platinum Sponsor at Pycon 2007. Zenoss CTO, Erik Dahl, will be speaking at Pycon, his talk,” How I wrote a Python App and Got $5 Million” is about why he chose Python to write his enterprise monitoring app, Zenoss Core. His talk will be [...]