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Getting close on ChatTrack

I'm almost to the point where I want to get a few friends playing with the tool.  I've still got Search, User "Blogs", RSS Feeds, and Highest-rated views to do, as well as lots of clean-ups.  Also need to get the domain-name set up for the poor little server.

I expect that the VM will ...

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Making your Twisted resource(s) a url sub-tree of your WSGI resource...

For those paddling about in the Twisted + WSGI-hosted app world (here I'm playing with TurboGears), one thing you may wind up wanting to do is to have your WSGI application be the "default" URL-tree, with only certain sub-trees handled by Twisted.  To be more concrete, say you want your URLs to look like this: ...

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TurboGears 2.1b1

Percious just released the first 2.1 beta.  I've been using tip for my little project that embeds TG in Twisted, so I'm already there.  If you're planning on moving your codebases to 2.1 from 2.0, now is the time to test your apps with it so you can report any bugs before the final release.

TurboGears as a Twisted WSGI Application (in 125 seconds)

Say you want to have a TurboGears application running inside a Twisted web-server (which lets you mix in all sorts of other protocols).  J.P. has written up a 60-second recipe for getting a WSGI application running inside Twisted.  This post takes you the rest of the way to getting TurboGears 2.1 running inside that ...

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Need to find some PyOpenGL time

The little PyOpenGL folder in Thunderbird is mocking me with its unread message count, but there's so much to get done.  Am I going to be working on PyOpenGL at PyCon?  It's becoming a possibility, but darn it, I want to work *with* people on something this year.  I want to code with people to ...

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64-bit Ubuntu Web Devs, don't let Firebug update to 1.5

There's a bug that makes Firebug crash Firefox 3.5.x on 64-bit Ubuntu.  There's a fix to be released from Mozilla, but for right now Firebug 1.5 is *not* a good idea... of course, you're likely reading this in Firefox, so likely too late.  You can revert to Firebug 1.4.x by going here.  Details on ...

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Things I'd like to play with (given enough time)

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 ...

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Python's Too Easy

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 ...

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