One of my many functions as the KARL Champion at Six Feet Up is to release updates for our KARL customers such as OSF and Oxfam Great Britain. We release copies of KARL software for each customer in both a testing and production environment. During the KARL migration, from Xens to a combined KARL Hosting Infrastructure, we spent some time addressing some concerns with how we deploy new updates...

Six Feet Up team members Calvin Hendryx-Parker, Clayton Parker and David Blewett traveled to Ohio State University in Columbus for the 3rd PyOhio conference last weekend. This year's event continued the momentum from earlier conferences. Python users from the Midwest gathered to learn new strategies, maximize Python capabilities and wrap up with two days of development sprints. The location of the event was a great choice, making use of OSU's excellent Ohio Union...

Plone 4 is about to be released and only a few products have been tested from a compatibility standpoint...

I'm Jim, one of the newest Sixies here at Six Feet Up. This past week, I got the opportunity to attend IndyPy. I'm a recent transplant to Indiana coming here from Florida. Since joining Six Feet Up, this has been the first community activity with a Python group that I've been able to attend. Six Feet Up employees have been actively participating in local, regional, international, and even online open source events often focusing around Python and Plone. I was glad to attend this event and was excited to find out many of the other members of Six Feet Up would also be attending. Kurt, who is also new at Six Feet Up, also joined me, meeting new faces and hearing about new Python tips and tricks...

Hardly any software is maintained by the original author for its whole life and some claim that 80% of the lifetime cost of a piece of software comes from maintaining that code.

As many have said already, any event that kicks off with dancing robots is an awesome sign of things to come during the conference...

We're happy to see that Python is now one of the fastest-growing programing languages, even rivaling PHP to become the most popular interpreted language. Today I explore the reasons why we believe Python is the language of choice for serious developers.

Here are some resources on why Pyramid is an ideal Python based web framework, and how to get started using it.

Six Feet Up organized IndyPy's Python Web Shootout, where 4 companies showed off 4 Python frameworks through the demo of a ToDo app developed in Bottle, Django, Flask and Pyramid.

Using Pyramid's add_request_method is an easy way to maintain state in your application.