Archive for the ‘development’ Category

So at work we have been focusing on real time web services a lot lately. Due to this I've been getting a chance to play with some awesome new technologies that really lend themselves to the real time web. One of these new technologies is the Tornado Web...

So right up front let me just say that I love Django. This should come as no surprise to anyone who has been to my site. I think its a great framework and I really enjoy working with it. That being said all too often my clients look like a deer in...

I've seen a lot of people out there looking for a good IDE for doing Django work. Personally I'm a pydev guy. I have been using Eclipse for so long for everything else it's very natural to keep on that path. However there are definitely other alternatives...

I can has REST?

April 14, 2009 | In: api, rest

Recently I've been working on a python wrapper for the twitter.com REST API called BirdyPy. It got me thinking about when I first started working with web APIs and how over complicated it seemed to me then. So I figured that I would share some of the...

Oh BirdyPy

April 12, 2009 | In: development, python

Just started a new open source python wrapper for the twitter rest and search apis. I'm trying to stay as 1 to 1 as I can with the names and function arguments so its pretty much an exact match to the twitter api docs. Also adding a django test app that...

I wrote this the other day. Thought someone might find it useful. Will let you do a POST request from a link. Good for delete buttons, since we all know your not supposed to let users delete things from a get request... right?! ;) Basically it takes...

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