[web2py] Re: in trunk - scraping utils

2010-05-24 Thread Kevin Bowling
Hmm, I wonder if this is worth the possible maintenance cost? It also transcends the role of a web framework and now you are getting into network programming. I have a currently deployed screen scraping app and found PyQuery to be more than adequate. There is also lxml directly, or Beautiful Sou

[web2py] Re: monetize web2py anybody?

2010-05-23 Thread Kevin Bowling
Massimo, you are awesome. I wish my CS professors had the breadth and tenacity that you have shown in this project with the full cycle from design, to implementation, to community building. Regards, Kevin On May 23, 4:18 pm, mdipierro wrote: > I have some problems: > > 1) people ask me to contr

[web2py] Re: Actual situation of web2py compatibility

2010-05-23 Thread Kevin Bowling
You say that like shared web hosting was never sad :-). I think anyone who is deploying a web framework has outgrown shared hosting. VPS solutions have come down in price to the point where any serious app should be on something like Linode. Otherwise, if you don't need or want the control, GAE i

[web2py] Production releases

2010-05-17 Thread Kevin Bowling
I'm going to take a stab in the dark and venture to say that I'm not the only one using web2py in a "production" environment (i.e. people other than me are accessing the app) :-P It seems that with many recent releases there are rather embarrassing bugs. The worst was several months ago when auth

[web2py] Re: unfair trolling

2010-02-28 Thread Kevin Bowling
Linode is faster and more friendly. They aren't owned by a big conglomerate like rackspace so you will get personal support and they will take a vested interest in keeping the web2py site up. You should consider emailing them, they may even give you a free instance if you recommend Linode for web

[web2py] Re: MySQL server has gone away

2010-02-22 Thread Kevin Bowling
roblem. Do you get it occasionally or > repeatedly? What is the pattern? > > On Feb 21, 8:17 pm, Kevin Bowling wrote: > > > I get the following error.  I have a 5 connection pool in my DAL > > connection line.  Shouldn't the DAL keep the connection alive or at > >

[web2py] MySQL server has gone away

2010-02-21 Thread Kevin Bowling
I get the following error. I have a 5 connection pool in my DAL connection line. Shouldn't the DAL keep the connection alive or at least mark it dead and reestablish or use another connection rather than throwing an error 500? Traceback (most recent call last): File "gluon/restricted.py", line

[web2py] Re: something happened to web2py.com

2010-02-20 Thread Kevin Bowling
You should move to Linode.com. It usually recieves the highest praise on reddit. I've never had a problem with my instance and the support is fantastic. On Feb 20, 6:09 pm, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > web2py.com is down. The problem is that vps.net management console is   > not working either.

[web2py] Re: Long running tasks queue

2010-02-18 Thread Kevin Bowling
I like this, I can simply insert sleep statements to keep it from being to aggressive with this approach. Would this be best in system cron? On Feb 18, 1:31 pm, mdipierro wrote: > I would run a separate process > > web2py.py -S yourapp -M -R yourscript.py > > On Feb 18, 1:31 pm

[web2py] Re: website not working

2010-02-18 Thread Kevin Bowling
What OS? I'm running the old trusty prefork MPM with mod_php+mod_wsgi without trouble on a 512MB Linode Gentoo VPS and my site is getting beat up by ycombinator at the moment. Please post MPM httpd.conf data as well. Kevin On Feb 18, 12:40 pm, mdipierro wrote: > Yes. > > I am running apache2 a

[web2py] Long running tasks queue

2010-02-18 Thread Kevin Bowling
Hello, I have a screen scraper that I would like to call from web2py. I currently have a controller method that calls it and updates data in the DAL. The problem is, the number of users of this app is growing quickly. I need to queue the updates so I don't overwhelm the server that it is scrapi

[web2py] DAL integer length

2010-02-14 Thread Kevin Bowling
How can I force the DAL to use a 64-bit integer length (BIGINT) per facebook requirements for storing UIDs? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to web...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this gr

[web2py] Using web2py Facebook API

2010-02-13 Thread Kevin Bowling
Hi, I've been toying around with the demo web2py facebook app and have a fairly nice app in the 'canvas' view. However, I can't figure out how to do generic calls to the Facebook API. Some of the things I need to do: * Send email to the app user on state change (cron app) * Update user's feed on

[web2py] Re: How much memory does web2py need on Unix

2010-02-11 Thread Kevin Bowling
You probably can't even fit the process scheduler of a modern OS in 64k. Unless you want to code your apps on bare metal (no OS) assembly language, there is no way you'll get any higher level language in 64k. Even then, toss out the notions of a database, transactions, concurrency, and performanc