Today, I uploaded a minor update to ZoomifyImage on SourceForge. Here is the changelog for this release:
10/21/2009

Added version 4 Zoomifyer viewer and new licence.
Added contribution by Fran Firman.

It seems I make a new release of ZoomifyImage once a year like clockwork. This time around, I fixed a minor bug and made a few enhancements including writing temporary files to the system temporary directory and accounting for changes in ZODB’s transaction handling.

If you’ve scanned my blog in the past, you know that I am a big fan of Python and have been obsessed with Django recently, which to date is the most elegantly designed Web framework I have encountered. So far, other than using it on a very small project, I have mostly just been exploring Django and looking forward to using it on a more significant project that’s on my schedule for this summer. Unfortunately, it looks like I won’t be using it on that project after all, and the story behind it, which involves a good deal of office politics and my reasoning as I try to find a way through it, may be of interest to some.

This is an approach I took to download iCalendar data from a remote site, then process and display it within Zope with minimum dependencies. I have tried to document not only the specifics of the approach, but what motivated me to do it and what limitations exist.