Happenings in Python Usergroups: Twisted

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

TuPLE (Tucson, AZ) - March recap

There seems to be a good bit of interest in Python in the Tucson area, with new attendees from the UofA and several local companies who use Python for their daily work.

Ben Reynwar gave us an intro to Django, including basic project setup and routing urls to python methods.

Lucas Taylor introduced the Twisted framework and basic concepts including the Reactor, Deferreds, and Protocols. Demo code was shown to illustrate the basics of a simple server implementation.

Dave Thompson gave his Flash & Python talk. Included an overview of what Flash and Flex are, the AMF (Adobe Messaging Format), and python tools used for parsing and encoding objects in AMF. Discussed pyAMF and his own new library AmFast. AmFast is an AMF3 encoder/decoder implemented for speed. Initial tests show an 18x increase in speed for the encode/decode operations. Slides available on the limscoder blog

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

DFW Pythoneers, 2nd Sat: Topics We Covered

Here in Dallas we had our 2nd Saturday (April 12th) meeting at the Nerdbooks.com store. We covered a diverse set of topics, as follows:

the Texas Python Community and regional conference planning
the Pasta Theory of Software
what is so bad about Potato Programming
a New Edition of The Python Papers
a survey of cool Twisted technologies, many not so well known

Athena - a best-of-breed approach to developing interactive JavaScript (AJAX / Comet) applications
Vertex - a better concept for a peer-to-peer technology
Imaginary - simulation engine re role playing, interactive fiction, and multiplayer dungeons
Mantissa - an application server over Axiom db, Nevow templating and Athena
Axiom - an innovative database object relational mapper
Nevow - template language, form processing and really cool STAN, a Pythonic DOM for XML

talk and demo of the Google AppEngine
The Decorator Module

Much of the time was on the Google AppEngine, the darling of the blogosphere at the moment. A couple of us managed to get accounts so we went through the demonstration site provided with the Google SDK, and create a trivial application at http://dfwpython.appspot.com. The AppEngine infrastructure allows one to grant development privileges to other people, so we opened this application up to experimentation by other user group members.

For more information about our group, check out our user group wiki.

-Jeff

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