Real-world real-time web apps with Python equals Django + Orbited + Twisted

Posted on December 17th, 2009

Some things are better in real-time. Day-to-day activities such as conversations, multi-user games, and collaborative projects are far more exciting and productive when immediate feedback from others is available. Many web applications could gain significant new value by adding real-time features.

Currently though, it's a significant challenge to create real-time web applications. In this post I'll give a Python-centric ... Read more

Tools of the Modern Python Hacker: Virtualenv, Fabric and Pip

Posted on July 5th, 2009

In the jargon of the computer programmer, a hacker is someone who strives to solve problems in elegant and ingenious ways. Part of the path to elegantly solving larger problems is to use tools that solve sub-problems very well.

For the modern Python programmer, some of the most important tools to aid in reduced complexity and repetition are ... Read more

Django on Twisted Web - Using the latest twisted.web.wsgi functionality

Posted on April 23rd, 2009

There are many reasons why you might want Django and Twisted to work together when building an application. The first and most obvious thing that comes to mind is that you want to combine the best of what Django does (it's clean MVC functionality - in addition to amazing bits like the admin interface) with the best that Twisted has ... Read more




Recently, on Twitter: