Coding and Linux

I guess all of you will already know this, but Google is closing Google Code (announcement here).

It's easy to say that this is another BigG Cloud Service closing, but Code demise was looming - and GitHub, BitBucket (my favourite) offers plenty of alternatives.


If you have one (ore more) projects that are using from Code, this is the time to move. A button appears to move to GitHub.

Even better, if you are the founder of a long forgotten project, take your steps...

My little brother (ok, not so little, but just to speak) got an idea for a regional ecommerce site, and asked me to support him on the software side.

While popularity of ecommerce solutions is  with PHP, I am anyway having a look at the viability of Django as an ecommerce platform.

Any suggestion? Direct experience? Comments are welcome

Disclaimer - I received a free copy of the ebook.

I was a bit skeptical about this book, as any book with "cookbook" in the title. As far as I know, experience is the only way to really acquire software engineering competence.

With this review, I apologize. The only (small) negative point is that is targeting Django 1.6, but this may be an issue only with the migrations part, where Django 1.7 incorporated the Django South project.

Ok, so:

mkvirtualenv -v --no-site-packages --python=python3.3 virtualenvname

(I am trying to use python 3 with pyside - cross the finger)

Of course, to build pyside one must have qmake installed, so, run:

sudo yum whatprovides '*/qmake'

showing which packages provide the qmake binary, and then

sudo yum install qt-devel

Installing PySide requires python.h, which is provided by both python-devel and python3-devel.

Remember that I am trying with PySide and Python 3, so mandatory is:

yum install qt-devel


This will install version 4.8.something, which brings qmake.

After that activate your virtualenv, and then:


python setup.py bdist_egg --qmake=/usr/bin/qmake-qt4