Pinder is my Python client for the 37 Signals’s Campfire online chat. With the excuse of learning Git (by the way GitHub is awesome!) I rewrote it from scratch following the official Campfire API. Needless to say that it took me very little time. Git is damn fast, Python development is already fast, JSON is [...]
This morning I gave my talk about Erlang to a room full of Pythonistas (even people standing!) and it went pretty well considering the fact that was my first talk ever. I already posted the slides online on SlideShare. http://www.slideshare.net/rhymes/erlang-and-python
Tomorrow evening I’m leaving for a trip to London (yes, again!). Just vacation by the way. I’ll be back on the 6th of May. PyCon Tre is coming, in fact I’ll be in Florence from the 7th of May to the 10th to attend it. This year I’m going to speak for the first time. [...]
The third edition of the PyCon Italy is ready, we’ve finally published the schedule! It will be held in Florence as last year, on the 8th, 9th and 10th of May! We’ve received several talk proposal, we let the community vote to create a chart and we created the schedule including regular talks, sponsored ones [...]
Marco Beri, one of the organizers of PyCon Italy, published the first book in Italian about Django 1.0. It has been reviewed, among others, by Antonio Cangiano! This is great news for the chances of widespread adoption of Django in Italy!
The website of the Italian Python Conference, PyCon.it, has been launched. Apart from the schedule and new stuff (that I’ll talk about in another detailed post) the big, big news is that this year Guido van Rossum himself will be there to host a keynote. I’m thrilled about this because it also means that PyCon [...]
I’ve been actively developing with .NET in 2003-2004 but for some reasons I left the whole bandwagon. Recently I’ve had the opportunity to read Michael Foord‘s upcoming book: IronPython in Action and let me say that I found it extremely interesting, and I suggest it to everybody needing (or wanting) to work with .NET from [...]
I started developing web applications in Python relatively a long time ago. I tried almost them all in various degrees of depth: Python + CGI, Zope 2, Webware for Python, Subway (who does remember it?), Twisted Web, Nevow, Python + WSGI, Paste, Django, Pylons and maybe something else I can’t remember right now. Nowadays most [...]
As you all already know TwistedMatrix is great to write asynchronous event-driven network oriented programs: define how your protocol responds in case of events, attach some callbacks if you need them, wrap it in a factory and activate the reactor. The reactor runs a giant loop in which events are processed in a non-blocking fashion. [...]
I am still alive, just don’t have time to blog something meaningful. By the way, this is what I am doing/I have done recently: Patched httplib2 to support MD5-sess (at work) Patched soaplib to use httplib2 with the above patch (at work) All the above is because we are interfacing with a couple of SOAP [...]
