Get it while it's hot: Zenoss Announces Membership in the TSF.
It's exciting to see companies supporting Twisted like this; increasing exposure to the community's efforts is one of the best things that can be done by organizations using Twisted.
Thanks Zenoss!
Friday, May 9, 2008
Zenoss' Twisted Press Release
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Twisted in the News
An Inflection Point
In a recent blog post, the London-based Isotoma consulting firm gave Twisted a mention. Their post was a commentary on Tim Bray's Multi-Inflection-Point Alert, a concise run-down on what's going on with internet tech, as he puts, "right now."
Isotoma had this to say:
"We’re a lot further down this particular inflection curve than most, I think. We make heavy use of Twisted, a single-threaded cooperatively multitasking network programming system that specifically addresses the threading problem."They went on to mention that it doesn't seem like a complete solution. I'd love to hear their comments on where they find it lacking, what they'd like to see supported -- either specific features or general thoughts on the future of computing in the consulting industry.
Imitation and Flattery
Ruby has something called EventMachine and was described as implementing the "Twisted-introduced" deferred pattern in a nutrun post.
Mashed and Twisted?
Twisted and Nevow made a mashup list on InnovationStartups' blog of 120+ Web Development Resources. Also on the list were launchpad, rBuilder, Ohloh, Ruby on Rails, MochiKit, Django and Zope.
Scratch that Itch!
Jesse Noller blogs about Bruce Eckle's latest Twisted mention, saying "Dangit Bruce gave me the twisted itch again."
Bruce Eckle talks about Concurrency with Python, Twisted, and Flex in his Artima Developer post, where he also mentions PyAMF (which I helped update the Twisted docs for :-)). Bruce takes a quick look at asynchronous programming, object brokering with Twisted, and XML-RPC. I wish he'd used twisted.application.service instead of running the reactor directly, but hey -- it's a great Twisted post about stuff that lots of people are using right now :-)
New Users
Paul Stevens blogged about setting up Twisted on his mac. He's now off to the races :-) Good luck, Paul! Be sure to stop by IRC and/or post messages on the mail list with questions...
Technorati Tags: community, flex, networking, processing, programming, ruby, technology, twisted
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
The Twisted Show: Episode 3
In our third installment, we have interviewed Synthesis Studios of Boston, MA. Co-founder Raffi Krikorian gave a fabulous interview with some phenomenal Twisted sound bites. We'll definitely be quoting him!
One of my favorite bits was the value Raffi sees in Twisted as a tool for improving the actual mind of the software developer; in particular, finding "outside the box" solutions to challenging problems.
Check out the interview from either the wiki page or the Twisted Show blog...
Technorati Tags: community, entertainment, geeks, software, twisted
April 20th Sprint Report
Hello all,
The first TSF sponsored Twisted sprint is done. Here's a quick rundown of some of the things that happened (this is the same summary as I sent to the mailing list so you can skip it if you already read it there).
- Glyph Lefkowitz made a huge dent in the current review queue, dealing with more than half of the outstanding tickets.
- After some discussion about the value of a bugfix-only release vs a normal bugfix and feature enhancement release, Christopher Armstrong got the wheels rolling on 8.1.0 (which will be of the latter type). You probably already saw the pre1 announcement. Give it a spin!
- Paul Swartz continued to strive towards the goal of Twisted Conch being as soft and cuddly as a little bunny rabbit.
- Ying Li worked on permission and ownership features for FilePath.
- Jeff Mancuso came by for a while and talked about Twisted Conch performance (and did some benchmarks) and SFTP access control issues.
- Roland Hedberg got his hands dirty in pyOpenSSL working on adding an API to get arbitrary X509v3 extensions.
- Itamar Shtull-Trauring helped out all around.
- I finished fixing some reactor startup and shutdown issues introduced in 8.0.
The next sprint is tentatively scheduled for May 18th at the Divmod office.
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Founding Sponsors Window Closes May 15th
Current Founding Sponsors: You guys rock! Thanks!
Potential Founding sponsors: You too can rock, but you only have a limited window of opportunity in which to do so!
We were going to set the deadline to April 30th, but we've been so busy working with those of you that have been sponsoring that we didn't get the chance (just look at those awesome logos on the front page!) to send out an email. We wanted to provide people and companies with a 30 day notice, so May 15th it is.
Thanks again, everyone -- you are helping make Twisted a thriving project that gives you more and more of what you need.
Originally posted on the Twisted Python mail list.
Update: Thanks to feedback from Grig Gheorghiu, we now have two domains that direct to the TSF page:
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Twisted 8.0 released!
MASSACHUSETTS (DP) -- Version 8.0 of the Twisted networking framework has been released, Twisted Matrix Laboratories announced Wednesday.
Enslaved by his new robotic overlords, Master of the Release Christopher Armstrong presented the new package to the Internet on March 26th. Armstrong was unable to comment, because of a device worn around his neck preventing him from doing so, scientists say.
Secretary of Defense Jean-Paul Calderone was asked about concerns that French interference may have played a role in the delay of this release. "I find such speculation preposterous. Thomas Hervé is an upstanding member of the Labs and his loyalties lie with us. He is a fine addition to our team." Rumors in the community allege that Secretary Calderone is holding Hervé's cat ransom until the release is successfully distributed. Hervé was unavailable for comment.
This release comes shortly after the announcement by Chief of Public Affairs Duncan McGreggor that Twisted had joined the Software Freedom Conservancy. "We're happy to join the SFC, and we are now accepting sponsorship. The fact that we are now ruled by a cabal of robots should not put off potential donors. Our robotic overlords are running us at peak efficiency, so we can most effectively distribute The Love."
Asked about the version number jump in this release, Commander-in-Chief Glyph Lefkowitz had the following to say: "Our benefactors have found our previous dice-rolling version number scheme to be inadequate, and have deigned to propose to us a more... logical system of versioning."
Twisted 8.0 is a major feature release, with several new features and a great number of bug fixes. Some of the highlights follow.
- The IOCP reactor is now much improved and many bugs have been resolved.
- Twisted is now easy_installable.
- Many improvements were made to Trial, Twisted's unit testing system.
- A new memcache client protocol implementation was added.
- So much more!
Why the large version number bump? We've decided to switch to a time-based versioning scheme. "8.0" means the first release in 2008.
Thanks!
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Twisted Announces Membership in the Software Freedom Conservancy
At PyCon 2008 we were delighted to share some good news with the Python community: the announcement of the Twisted Software Foundation. Glyph had previously emailed the Twisted mail list, letting those close to the project know of this major event shortly after the paperwork was signed. Before we brought this before a more public audience, we wanted to give companies a chance to become "founding sponsors" -- and this is what has happened at PyCon. We're looking forward to issuing a formal press release about this (including info on the founding sponsors) and will have more details in the near future.
We would like to send a special thank-you out to those sponsors who made contributions immediately. In order of contribution, they are:
- Chris Armstrong
- Michel Pelletier
- AdytumSolutions, Inc.
- tummy.com
- Drew Perttula
- Glenn Tarbox
- Ilya Novoselov
Read the initial announcement here. If the video for the announcement made at PyCon gets published somewhere, we will post an update.
Update: Thanks to feedback from Grig Gheorghiu, we now have two domains that direct to the TSF page:
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