Improving programming productivity is a big business, producing a neverending parade of methodologies and processes and research and whatnots.But over the past 40 odd years I think we've learned that there'sonly four real ways to do it:

1. reduce connections
2. write less code
3. meetings kill kittens
4. get better people

(to put them all in punchy short forms)

None of these should be new to people, since Fred Brooks covered themall 30 years ago in The Mythical Man-Month (with much better writing,

WSGI is the Python 'WebServer Gateway Interface', which is a standard interface between webservers and Python web applications. The idea is that you write yourapp as a WSGI app, then glue it to the web interfaces of your choice:CGI-BIN, SCGI , a standalone testing webserver, whatever. The WSGI stuff encourages a stacking model, wheremodular middleware can be transparently inserted above applications tohandle various more or less generic things.

(Ian Bicking gives examples of a bunch of WSGI middleware here

Through the pca news page I found out someimpending changes to access to Solaris patches. There are two changes:

• InfoDoc #83061 says that from mid-July, we'll need to register for a free SunOnline Account in order to get patches.
• InfoDoc #82023 says that Sun will be turning off anonymous ftp access to patchesin late August.

I'm honestly not sure how these two interact, since it's hard toenforce having accounts with anonymous ftp