Today, was an exciting day for me, again.
I was working on several client’s projects and something seems to have crystalized in my brain today. This crystallization created a new question that I posted on stackoverflow: How to deploy: database, source and binary changes in 1 patch?
Amazingly, 6 hours went by and I only [...]

Some of you know that in my spare time I’ve been taking pictures of people at parties.
Well, I’m making it official. I registered socialphotography.org, created Social Photography Facebook Group and socialpics twitter account.
The concept is very simple. I take portrait of people at parties, on their way to parties and generally just having fun. It’s [...]

I was at Cascon 2009 today and collaboration seems to be a hot topic again. Within the last 24 hours, I met 2 new people who are interested in a collaboration platforms.

I’ve now integrated 3scale.net into our Datastore API.
Now can I control and meter access to the Datastore API using 3scale.
Next, I’m moving on to RabbitMQ and Celery, the goal is to be able to create tasks that are executed by offline worker servers.

Here are some code snippets from the test that I wrote for testing the REST API for one of our projects.

Finally, I have working tests for the Vacation API. There were several things that I needed to overcome to accomplish this.

Add ability to POST body to restclient – created patch and contributed it to the project
Write a bunch of tests

Done, now I can move on to integrating 3scale.net into the API Server.

The next 2 weeks are dedicated to finishing the development of the Data Store on the Google App Engine. I want to have a solid testing framework setup for the Data Store REST API before I integrate 3scale. This will allow me to ensure that the API is working perfectly without having to manually test [...]

My main goal is to create a system that will scale easily and allow us to use commodity infrastructure elements. These commodity infrastructure elements each have their advantages and disadvantages. The architecture of the system aims to utilize the advantages and minimize the disadvantages.

I want one of these:

I’m preparing to start development on beecoop and anonymous websites and I would like to establish a comfortable python development environment to make development and deployment of different applications easier.
There are several factors that I need to consider:

I’m going to be working on several different projects at the same time.
Each project is going to be [...]