What’s new in 4.7.1? enhance verbose output of hook loader Change install docs to use –user (contributed by Éric Lemoine)

What’s new in 0.1.0? This is the first public release of wphelper, and it supports publishing new posts from files formatted using Markdown syntax.

Part of my migration to WordPress has involved figuring out how to customize it in a reasonable way. I wanted to move off of a static site generator in part to get away from the sense that I was constantly tweaking the site tool instead of writing, but I do have a few relatively small things that the default WordPress templates don’t support. For the most part the default themes are fine, but besides the usual colors and images I want to customize a few things about the page layout, especially the metadata.

What’s new? This release improves MSYS support for 64bit systems. Detect MSYS if MSYSTEM is MINGW64 (contributed by Martin Etnestad Johansen) Update documentation to show how to restore overridden cd command to its default builtin behavior if it was changed in a hook. (contributed by Kevin Deldycke)

I’ve migrated my personal blog from Tinkerer back to WordPress, which may introduce repeated articles into the various RSS feeds, since the URLs have changed. The primary reason I decided to change blogging tools is because with more than 500 posts, the site build time under Tinkerer was unacceptably long. It works great for someone familiar with Sphinx, and with a smaller amount of content than I have. The reason I chose WordPress over another static blogging engine is I want to be able to schedule posts to be published in the future, without having to set up cron jobs or special tools to be able to do it.

Yesterday I gave a talk titled “How I Built a Power Debugger Out of the Standard Library and Things I Found On the Internet” at PyOhio 2015. The slides and video are now online.

Smiley demonstrates how to use Python’s native tracing capabilities to monitor not just what parts of your program run, but the data flowing through the program as it runs. All of the data is recorded for study after the program exits, which means you can pass different inputs and then compare the results of the runs. In this presentation, I will describe the evolution of Smiley, from concept through internal API changes as I worked on the implementation. I will also talk about tracing Python programs in general, and explain how the trace code in Smiley can be used to send trace data to different output destinations.

As an OpenStack developer, I spend a lot of time looking at web sites for code review, project status, bug reports, the wiki, and other online collaboration tools. As a productivity boost, I’ve set up “keyword bookmarks” for all of the most commonly accessed tools, turning my browser’s input field into a command-line-like short-cut to jump directly to the page I want, without hunting around in a long list of links.

What’s New in This Release? Fix an issue with six under Python 3.4.

What’s New? Fix an issue with links in the documentation. Contributed by Justin Abrahms. Fix an issue with lsvirtualenv reporting an error at the end of its output. Contributed by Robson Peixoto (robsonpeixoto). Officially support python 3.4. Test and doc updates contributed by Jessamyn Smith (jessamynsmith).

What’s New? Add the ability to pass extra configuration arguments through to Sphinx (contributed by papousek).