Yesterday was 1 year since I started at CohesiveFT. New things this year (in no particular order):
Mac. I got a Macbook Pro as my work laptop. Feels great every time I sit down to work, even though I am not a very demanding desktop user - browser, email, IM, rss reader for non-public feeds, […]
Tags: linux · python · rabbitmq · ruby · work
Google released their App Engine yesterday. Very cool python goodness, supposedly with access to their BigTable and GFS and supposedly free for use up to a certain limit.
In the meantime, Google engineers (or was it designers?) came up with a new type of aircraft. You probably have heard about flying wings, but it looks […]
Guido van Rossum, creator of Python programming language, published slides of his keynote at PyCon 2008 here.
A note to self: come back to to this link when it’s time to migrate to py3k.
Tags: python
We put together an add-on for py-amqplib that implements AMQP client with non-blocking sockets in python.
There are at least 2 scenarios where non-blocking sockets help, and both are applicable to consumers:
1) when you want to be able to interrupt consumer’s event loop without waiting for a next incoming message;
2) when you want to consume messages […]
Tags: python · rabbitmq · technology