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Tom Christie has some very good things to say on how to successfully maintain an open source project without losing sanity. Truth one: There are, and will always be, a non-finite number of possible valid issues to address. Your code can always be better polished, your APIs better defined, and your project more fully featured. Your documentation can always be better. The ecosystem within which your project lives is constantly evolving. You will never run out of things you could work on. Ever. ...

Flask-Sentinel is a OAuth2 Server implementation of the Resource Owner Password Credentials Grant pattern described in Section 1.3.3 of RFC 6749. It is powered by Flask-Oauthlib, Redis and MongoDB and is bundled as a Flask extension so it can be used to add OAuth2 capabilities to an existing application. So what is the Resource Owner Password Credentials Grant pattern? According to the official RFC: The resource owner password credentials (i.e., username and password) can be used directly as an authorization grant to obtain an access token. The credentials should only be used when there is a high degree of trust between the resource owner and the client (e.g., the client is part of the device operating system or a highly privileged application). ...

In spite of being a marketing spin and link bait, Heroku article on microservices does a pretty good job at explaining why microservices matter and, at a very high level, what challenges they pose. However, microservices aren’t a silver bullet, and they won’t make a sluggish IT organization fast. While individual services become more robust and less complex, the overall system takes on the many challenges of distributed systems at the network level. Despite their challenges, they’re here to stay because they map better than anything else to the software landscape of the future: parallel development, platform-as-a-service deployment, and ubiquitous use. ...

I am not a big fan of top tens but 10 Tips for Better Pull Requests is well worth reading. A good Pull Request involves more than just some code. In most cases, there’s one or more reviewer(s) involved, who will have to review your Pull Request in order to evaluate whether it’s a good fit for inclusion in the code base. Not only must you produce good code, but you must also cater to the person(s) doing the review. ...

Eve 0.5.1 was just released with a couple fixes to 0.5 (which was released earlier this week.) Don’t be surprised. Going forward I’m striving for a much faster release cycle, especially so when it comes to fixes.

I wasn’t aware that The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz is now available with a Creative Common license, free for everyone to enjoy.

Powered by SQLAlchemy and good intentions, Eve-SQLAlchemy is an official Eve extension which allows to effortlessly build and deploy highly customizable, fully featured RESTful Web Services with SQL backends. As with all Eve extensions, once installed with $ pip install eve-sqlalchemy using Eve-SQLAlchemy is very simple: from eve import Eve from eve_sqlalchemy import SQL app = Eve(data=SQL) app.run() On a fresh virtualenv (of course you are using virtualenvs, right?) the install will also setup Eve and all its dependencies for you. For a complete tutorial you can visit the Eve-SQLAlchemy Support Website. ...

Eve v0.5 was released today. Cerberus v0.8 only a few days ago. A whole lot of new features, changes and fixes are coming with these releases so make sure to check the official release post to gather all the news.

A lot of servers have been including a JeSuisCharlie header with their responses. If you haven’t already, try with Charlie Hebdo site itself: $ curl -I charliehebdo.fr Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 15:56:13 GMT Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Length: 221 Connection: keep-alive Location: http://www.charliehebdo.fr/index.html Vary: Accept-Encoding X-Charlie-fr: Je suis toujours Charlie. X-Charlie-en: I am still Charlie. X-Charlie-es: Todavia soy Charlie. X-Charlie-de: Ich bin immer Charlie. X-Charlie-ro: Inca sunt Charlie. X-Charlie-cz: Jsem stale Charlie. I find this to be a great way for us techies to somehow contribute and show support for the ongoing anti-terrorism campaign. So if you feel like doing it here is a quick rundown on how to serve custom headers with your Eve-powered REST API. It is actually a very easy task to accomplish. ...

Robert C. Martin is at it again this time targeting the (infamous?) Interface construct in a funny way. As both a C# and Python coder I couldn’t agree more. Also, let me quote my fellow polyglot developer Nicola Musatti who went all out on the topic: Some of us have known that for the best part of the last 20 years 😉