Archives week 8 of 2010

I have just *barely* managed to keep my "PyOpenGL will have a final release at PyCon" promise.  Honestly I haven't had enough time this afternoon to get much testing done, so I'll have to hold off on a release announcement, but the bytes are out there.  Need to get on a plane in a few ...

Spent the first half of today on PyOpenGL 3.0.1 release.  Got fed up with Windows and decided to spend the rest of the day on TurboGears documentation.  Mostly just got the install page to be a little less grotty and then did some cleanup on a few other pages.  Got the Win32 install tested (ironic, ...

Luke (of Moksha fame) has been guiding me through the "official" and correct way to do real-time web with TurboGears.  Orbited seems to be a given, but STOMP apparently doesn't scale, while AMQP isn't well supported under Javascript.  That seems to leave XMPP as the likely "official" way until AMQP is fully supported.

Of course, ...

Was just too tired to really put the positive, friendly energy into the talk that I'd wanted to put in.  Ah well, dangers of letting myself stay up all night chatting I suppose.

Seem to finally have ChatTrack working on IE8.  The key was installing Opera; it was only when *that* failed in the same way that I realize that it was the server-side code that was wrong (basically had < instead of >= (duh!)).  Didn't cause a problem for FireFox or Chrome because they use the streaming ...

Just a reminder; tonight is the night to see 2 (or possibly three) presenters Live at Linux Caffe.