A simple photosharing application written in Python

2007-04-21 Thread Rico
I d like to show you
http://www.morecute.com

It has been awesome runs on Fedora

I wanted to share it early on so there is litte load on the server and
the  early adopter crowd can try it out

thanks
Jerry

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Re: Python Web Programming - looking for examples of solid high-traffic sites

2007-05-20 Thread Rico
On May 16, 2:04 pm, Victor Kryukov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> our team is going to rewrite our existing web-site, which has a lot of
> dynamic content and was quickly prototyped some time ago.
>
> Today, as we get better idea of what we need, we're going to re-write
> everything from scratch. Python is an obvious candidate for our team:
> everybody knows it, everybody likes it, it has *real* objects, nice
> clean syntax etc.
>
> Our main requirement for tools we're going to use is rock-solid
> stability. As one of our team-members puts it, "We want to use tools
> that are stable, has many developer-years and thousands of user-years
> behind them, and that we shouldn't worry about their _versions_." The
> main reason for that is that we want to debug our own bugs, but not
> the bugs in our tools.
>
> Our problem is - we yet have to find any example of high-traffic,
> scalable web-site written entirely in Python. We know that YouTube is
> a suspect, but we don't know what specific python web solution was
> used there.
>
> TurboGears, Django and Pylons are all nice, and provides rich features
> - probably too many for us - but, as far as we understand, they don't
> satisfy the stability requirement - Pylons and Django hasn't even
> reached 1.0 version yet. And their provide too thick layer - we want
> something 'closer to metal', probably similar to web.py -
> unfortunately, web.py doesn't satisfy the stability requirement
> either, or so it seems.
>
> So the question is: what is a solid way to serve dynamic web pages in
> python? Our initial though was something like python + mod_python +
> Apache, but we're told that mod_python is 'scary and doesn't work very
> well'.
>
> And althoughhttp://www.python.org/about/quotes/lists many big names
> and wonderful examples, be want more details. E.g. our understanding
> is that Google uses python mostly for internal web-sites, and
> performance is far from perfect their. YouTube is an interesting
> example - anybody knows more details about that?
>
> Your suggestions and comments are highly welcome!
>
> Best Regards,
> Victor.

Teenwag runs on Python, with a hacked up Framework and recieves about
2million visitors a day and is constantly increasing
http://teenwag.com/profile?friendid=326

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Choosing a new language

2007-12-28 Thread Rico Secada
Hi. 

First let me start by saying, please don't let this become a
flame-thing.

Second, I need some advice.

I am a 35 year old programmer, who program in C/C++, PHP and Bourne
Shell almost daily.

I am currently going to start focusing on becoming more skilled at a
few key languages, rather than knowing many (which I do on a more
superficial level). 

My key languages are C, PHP and SH (Bourne Shell), and I have stopped
using C++ because I find that its a C-hack rather than a good design
choice. 

I have made the following decision:

To study Ada and use it instead of C++. I come from a Pascal background
and I love the Ada syntax and wide area of usage. I am also attracted
to Ada because of its usage in the industry.

Now I have three more languages that I am very attracted to, but I
prefer to focus on just one of them:

Python, Haskell and Lisp.

I have been doing some reading and some coding, and I am mainly
attracted towards Lisp because of its ability to "fix a
running program".

But I find that Haskell is a more powerful language. Yet again Python
has a huge user base and many libraries, and it is implemented
everywhere, where Haskell and Lisp on the other hand hasn't. 

I like the syntax of all three, and I have gotten beyond the
"confusion" stage of Lisp parentheses, so they don't bother me at all.

I need advice from people who have been coding in all three, and who
can share some views and experiences.

Please, if you don't know ALL three by deep experience, don't respond to
this thread!

Thanks and best regards!

Rico.
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Re: Choosing a new language

2007-12-29 Thread Rico Secada
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 23:56:12 +0100
Samuel Tardieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > "Brad" == byte8bits  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> Brad> Best of luck in finding skilled, affordable Ada programmers
> Brad> outside of major cities.
> 
> Which is why it may be a good idea to learn it and earn a lot of $$
> $ :)

I have yet to see a job offering in which Ada is wanted, atleast in my
country there is none.
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