Category archives: Snaking

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 ...

I've been trying to push out the next beta of PyOpenGL 3.0.1 for a while now.  However, as noted before, I've now got a semi-automatic test suite... and it's failing on Win32.  So far all of the problems have come down to test-suite issues, but they've been exposing some annoying behaviors of the ATI Win32 ...

We started off the PyGTA meeting with brainstorming for fun projects that we could do in a "pure functional" manner. Lots of complex and involved things that we'd whip off in a few minutes. But first, just to be sure we were all on the same page, let's whip off a quicky...

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Just finished registering for PyCon 2010.  Early-bird corporate rate is only $450USD, very good value for the money.  Direct flights from Toronto run ~$920CDN (taking ~2 hrs), 1-stop flights are ~$600CDN (taking 6+ hrs).  Hotel is around $80/night or around $560 if you intend to arrive the night before the conference-proper and stay through the ...