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Having (finally) had some success with Twisted and Jabber, I am taking a moment to celebrate with a bottle of Harp. The NerdBooks.com party was pretty cool, though mellow. They have an insane selection of books — everything from animation to signal processing. As it turns out, they have insanely great prices […]

My head is full of drippy goo, and the wireless network keeps flaking out on me; this combination makes it really hard to focus on getting anything done. In Twisted terms, getting dog-ass sick was a Deferred, and I’m now living through the callback.
Joy.
Small victories today…

Got ahold of Paul McGuire during brief periods when […]

Well! Another February 14 draws to a close, and (luckily, thankfully) it’s been a very, very good one thus far.
On the work front: we weathered the storm with aplomb, our site never faltering under the onslaught of the greetings industry’s biggest day, while our competitors dropped like flies. W00t! A side benefit […]

Twisted Network Programming Essentials
Author: Abe Fettig
Published: October 2005 by O’Reilly
ISBN: 0-596-10032-9
236 pages
When Twisted started to explode onto the scene, I was really intrigued by its varied capabilities and asynchronous model, but I was turned off by the then-scant documentation and the webapp framework transition that was just beginning (Woven was deprecated and Nevow was […]

One of the reasons I haven’t been messing much with TurboGears lately (aside from the current heavy development activity and resulting instability and lack of recent docs–plus the week it took me to catch up on the mailing list after a week of jury duty) is that I recently received a review copy of Twisted: […]