May 28 2003
PyCon Papers
That defer paper isn’t the only one…good stuff in here. Again, a bunch of things to add to the reading list.
Archive for May, 2003
May 28 2003
Defer in Python
Generalization of Deferred Execution in Python
A high-ish level look at writing multi-tasking Python programs. I’m adding it to my, “to read” list.
May 27 2003
Weblog API
O’Reilly Network: Web Services, Weblogs and the Future. [May 27, 2003]
A good overview of the current “debate” over a weblogging API standard.
May 21 2003
Python PDF in Reportlab
An Article: PDF for the server
Reportlab
An article from IBM Developerworks on Reportlab, and the link to the product. Python does PDF’s, awesome. This toolkit is going to make my work life a lot easier.
The Reportlab people also have an XML parsing library. Something to check out.
May 20 2003
Python Plotting
There’s several libraries for creating fancy graphs in Python. Matplotlib is the latest that I’ve come across.
May 16 2003
Python Persistence
I’ve been trying to find a simple CGI state manager for Python. It’s not that I can’t find any, it’s that I find too many. There’s too many options, and they all seem to be too heavy weight for me.
So, I’ve decided to write my own, using the built in object pickler, as described in this article from IBM DeveloperWorks.
It’s a really good article, and it bolsters my faith in using standard Python modules to build some really powerful stuff.
May 16 2003
Skunked & Update on Projects
It doesn’t look like SkunkWorks is going to work for me. I misread their “CGI Wrapper” bit, thinking that I’d be able to use it in a CGI environment. No go.
I’ve been reading about Twisted an awful lot lately. It seems like such a cool tool. I need to find a project that I can use it in.
I posted a project list here a while back. A quick update to hopefully keep me on task:
1) Yang: my Netbackup monitoring package is going to be going through some big changes very soon. Work has been after me to add some big functionality, so it looks like I’ll get the time to do so.
2) Smaug / BNT API: Done as it’s going to be for now. The little sidebar box at http://www.lonelylion.com/mud is an example of it in action.
3) LDAP: I’ve read through the book. Conclusion: negative. I don’t think I’m going to be implementing LDAP any time soon. It’s just not practicle at this point.
4) Amazon / Paypal e-commerce stuff. Still on task, just redesigned. I finished the Amazon API, which I’m going to be integrating with a weblog thing I’m writing for the newly established Chicago Improv dot Org, or CIN, a project I’m working on with some other like-minded improv dudes. The ideas I had for Paypal are going to mutate into a sort of CRM deal, the Amazon stuff will stay pretty much the same, and bleed into a Weblog API that I’m cooking up on paper.
After the API is done, I’ll build out some interfaces, and we’ll push it out. The deadline is 4 weeks. So, by the beginning of June. I think it’s very doable, I just need to allocate some time.