Archive for the ‘Python’ Category

Book Review: Amazon SimpleDB Developer Guide

Sunday, June 27th, 2010

Today I’m going to review “Amazon SimpleDB Developer Guide” by Prabhakar Chaganti and Rich Helms.

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Getting started with Google App Engine, Python, and Flash CS4

Monday, March 1st, 2010

Google App Engine is a fast and affordable way to get your applications launched in the cloud. Today we are going to use the App Engine SDK for Python to send data from Flash to App Engine and back.

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Building a Flash Chat Socket Server with Stackless Python

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

When most people decide to build a socket server for their Flash/Flex projects they usually turn toward using Java since there are many excellent ways to go about building on some great frameworks. Today however I’ll quickly build a socket server using Stackless Python and communicate to Flash CS4.

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Getting started quickly with Diesel for Python

Monday, October 5th, 2009

Diesel is a project similar to Tornado. From the Diesel website they describe it as: “Diesel is a framework for writing network applications using asynchronous I/O in Python”. Today we will build a simple Diesel application and communicate with it via Telnet. The potential of Diesel is exciting when you begin to understand how you could use it for Comet based applications.

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Getting started with mongoDB and Python

Friday, September 25th, 2009

Today I’m going to cover getting started with mongoDB using Python. From the mongoDB website: Mongo (from “humongous”) is a high-performance, open source, schema-free document-oriented database. mongoDB is written in C++.

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Introducing WEB2PY: Build a Python web app in less than two minutes

Friday, September 4th, 2009

I discovered web2py last night. This is unlike any web framework you’ve ever seen and its open source and 100% free. With web2py the batteries are included and there is zero to install additionally or configure. Its all self-contained, in fact you don’t even need a code editor to work with the scripts since one is provided and hosted in the web browser. The language used is Python and you’ll find a Python interpreter is already included as well. Simply download, extract, and then run the executable and your up and running and ready to create your first web app.

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