Author archives: Mike

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.

Leigh and I did our presentations this evening to a pretty-much-packed house.

Leigh managed to keep pretty-much to time... I was *way* over (maybe double time), but then I knew I would be, the deck was almost 70 slides and that's before feedback, discussing ChatTrack as a project, etceteras, need to get the whole deck ...

Okay, we now have our own Open Space Wiki Page for figuring out what 3D/Graphics related stuff you want to do at PyCon.  If you're interested in 3D or graphics/games stuff, edit the page and brainstorm about what you'd like to see or work on.  I'm happy to do impromptu classes on whatever OpenGL-ish topics ...

There's a moment in writing presentations; you are dispassionately writing and editing point-form notes about the things you want to talk about, a kind of disjoint series of ideas that you know all fit together somehow, and you're really just playing with them to see how they fit, then you take a bit of time ...

When you're using SQLAlchemy you sometimes get into a fog where everything's so abstracted away that you forget there's a regular old PostgreSQL or SQLite instance under there. Thing is, there *is* a PostgreSQL instance under there, and if you use a Float data-type for your code, it will work perfectly well under SQLite (which ...

The PyCon Dress Rehearsal on the 16th at PyGTA is now slightly less than 1 week away.  3 presenters.  Listen, give feedback, enjoy, rinse, repeat, rinse, repeat, chat.

[Update] Unfortunately, Greg Wilson had to cancel, but that means more time for the other two!

So I'm wondering what other people do in this scenario:

• You have an executable that provides a (networked) service
• You want to test against the executable's service
• You want to be able to start/stop the executable during the tests
• You want to be able to run multiple executables between test suites (i.e. with different configs ...

Got started on testing performance tonight for ChatTrack.  Wow.  Nowhere *near* where it needs to be, not even on basic page rendering... seeing something like 14.5rps sustained on 1000 requests with 100 concurrency, and there's significant numbers of requests taking more than 4s to reply (eep!).  And that's on the laptop, the poor little ...