Re: [Twisted-Python] Twisted as a House for Sale

2013-08-27 Thread Glyph
On Aug 27, 2013, at 4:40 PM, Matt Haggard wrote: > Up to six articles now: http://iffy.github.io/twistedftw/ This now says "#{{ index+1 }} With Twisted you can {{ showing.ability }}" for me. -glyph ___ Twisted-Python mailing list Twisted-Python@twi

Re: [Twisted-Python] Twisted as a House for Sale

2013-08-27 Thread Matt Haggard
Senthil, Thanks! I don't think I realized Dave Peticola was the author of the krondo series. His series is great for learning how Twisted (and asynchronous programming) works, but I've had mixed reviews from newbies I've sent there -- mostly because they didn't know why they would want to use Tw

Re: [Twisted-Python] Twisted as a House for Sale

2013-08-24 Thread Orestis Markou
I gave a 4-hour training on Twisted a couple of years ago, and tried to capture the essence of it in a written tutorial (as opposed to slides). I haven't touched those notes for ages now, but you can see the result here: https://github.com/orestis/twisted-tutorial Hopefully it will find some u

Re: [Twisted-Python] Twisted as a House for Sale

2013-08-23 Thread Senthil Kumaran
Hi Matt, On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Matt Haggard wrote: > Thanks for positive response, everyone! > > There are now two legitimate articles (yeah, they're small) > iffy.github.io/twistedftw This is great. It will be appealing to new audience, who value UI design highly. I hope you have

Re: [Twisted-Python] Twisted as a House for Sale

2013-08-23 Thread Matt Haggard
Thanks for positive response, everyone! There are now two legitimate articles (yeah, they're small) iffy.github.io/twistedftw I'm planning next to write a hello world for making a webserver using klein. It will mostly be plagiarized from the klein README and then drive them to klein's github pag

Re: [Twisted-Python] Twisted as a House for Sale

2013-08-22 Thread James Broadhead
This was hilarious, thank you for sharing it. Forwarded the link to my whole team. JB ___ Twisted-Python mailing list Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python

Re: [Twisted-Python] Twisted as a House for Sale

2013-08-21 Thread Tom Prince
Glyph writes: > I'm pretty sure we can scare up some hosting resources for things if > you want to have some kind of demo persistent Twisted services > running. twistedmatrix.com is no longer buckling under the pressure > of its users - why, I just ssh'd in, and the load is less than 1.0! > By ou

Re: [Twisted-Python] Twisted as a House for Sale

2013-08-21 Thread Glyph
On Aug 21, 2013, at 10:02 AM, Matt Haggard wrote: > I've got the start of a demo multi-protocol chat server, if anyone's > interested in taking a look. (Is this the right place for this > discussion? Would IRC be better?) This is a fine place for discussion. If you prefer IRC, by all means u

Re: [Twisted-Python] Twisted as a House for Sale

2013-08-21 Thread Matt Haggard
I've got the start of a demo multi-protocol chat server, if anyone's interested in taking a look. (Is this the right place for this discussion? Would IRC be better?) Run it on your own machine by doing this: # make a virtualenv if you want git clone -b demo https://github.com/iffy/twistedftw.git

Re: [Twisted-Python] Twisted as a House for Sale

2013-08-20 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
I loved the story! Thanks. I think the idea of a separate site for the newcomer audience has a lot of promise. Also that site might have different (primary) maintainers than the twistedmatrix.com site. I guess maybe one of the values of the "front door site" is what it excludes. All the documentat

Re: [Twisted-Python] Twisted as a House for Sale

2013-08-20 Thread Matt Haggard
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 6:34 PM, Glyph wrote: > > On Aug 19, 2013, at 10:38 AM, Matt Haggard wrote: > > ... [a story] ... > > > Very entertaining :-). > > My one disappointment with the narrative was that when you were lushly > describing standing in an open field west of the white house, you neg

Re: [Twisted-Python] Twisted as a House for Sale

2013-08-19 Thread Laurens Van Houtven
Hi Matt, Loved the story, excited about the prospects. Just one nitpick: after one of Glyph's rants on gender-neutral words, I got tripped up by Ronnie not being referred to as "they" ;-) cheers lvh ___ Twisted-Python mailing list Twisted-Python@twiste

Re: [Twisted-Python] Twisted as a House for Sale

2013-08-19 Thread Glyph
On Aug 19, 2013, at 10:38 AM, Matt Haggard wrote: > ... [a story] ... Very entertaining :-). My one disappointment with the narrative was that when you were lushly describing standing in an open field west of the white house, you neglected to mention that there was a mailbox there. > I want

Re: [Twisted-Python] Twisted as a House for Sale

2013-08-19 Thread Justin Venus
I really enjoyed the story and it brought back early memories of learning about twisted. @jvenus On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Laurelin of Middle Earth wrote: > I thought the story was incredible, and a really really excellent > analogy to the feeling I have whenever I try to learn somethin

Re: [Twisted-Python] Twisted as a House for Sale

2013-08-19 Thread Laurelin of Middle Earth
I thought the story was incredible, and a really really excellent analogy to the feeling I have whenever I try to learn something about twisted. Especially the first time. -- lauri Thus spaketh Matt Haggard on 2013-08-19 12:38 PM: Please indulge me -- my reasons are at the end. Twisted as a

[Twisted-Python] Twisted as a House for Sale

2013-08-19 Thread Matt Haggard
Please indulge me -- my reasons are at the end. Twisted as a House for Sale === You double check the listing printout to make sure you're not lost. On the drive in, you didn't see many other cars on the road or people out on the street -- the neighborhood seems kind of des