Author archives: Mike

I'm finding myself spending too much time (again) on this little "chat track" project... which leads me to think about other things I could be playing with:

• 3D renderers and/or game engines
• Haskel
• Mobile games
• WebGL
• XMPP (and/or Wave)
• PyPy
• Educational tools

I *still* haven't finished the remaining core piece of the project, but I ...

As I work on my little Tornado project I occasionally run into things that are packaged for other frameworks, CouchDB, Recaptcha, that kind of thing.  They're the kind of thing that you can write a basic client for in a few hours (less for Recaptcha, of course), but then you realize there's corner cases, little ...

Once again I have put off finding a roomie to share my room at PyCon.  I've got a double-bed double-occupancy room.  I normally stay out pretty late, but come in quietly, having exhausted my voice.  Reservation is 18th to the 25th.  $157/night split 50/50.

This upcoming Tuesday we're going to look at, and hopefully play with, Tornado at PyGTA. Next month we've got the big PyCon Dress Rehearsal with 3 speakers.

Figured I should test on IE7 and 8, and as usual when I go to test on IE, I found myself thinking "really?" about the bugs that showed up... missing "push" and "forEach" on arrays?  Crashing because of a check for whether an attribute is defined?  Requiring a different event-binding to capture <return>?  Sigh.  Whatever. ...

I pushed some of the refactored code from my little test project out today.  Can't say I'm in love with the code, nor with how it was written (I'm afraid I hacked it from spike test right up to final implementation).  Anyway, the result is a poll/long-poll/streaming channel-server for Tornado + JQuery.  You use it ...

Okay, there's fun, and then there's fun.  I think I've passed the point of diminishing entertainment playing with the little tool/site for my PyCon talk... somewhere in there I implemented a publish-subscribe system that looks a lot like a simpler version of Bayeux (with fewer transports, mind you, just poll and long-poll).  While learning Tornado ...

Continuing to work on my little project.  Mostly messing about with UI and getting CouchDB to do what I want it to do.  The query mechanism is a little weird when you're used to SQL(Alchemy) and complex referential schemas.  For instance, say you want to be able to total votes across M objects with N ...

All three local PyCon presenters are booked in for the PyGTA on February 16th.  Should be pretty darn cool.

I've been working on something for my PyCon talk for *far* too long now.  I started in Nevow + Athena, which is a technology I'm moderately familiar with, having written Cinemon using it (though that was years ago now).  I got a nice single-person implementation done with Athena and then started looking into how to ...