Archive For July, 2010

A Simple Experiment with Hookbox

Posted on July 30, 2010 in: performance, programming|17 Comments

Hookbox is a new Python-based comet server with support for Websockets. It’s main features include: Support for named channels on which data is published/subscribed. Server-side Websocket and WSGI support via the eventlet concurrent networking library. Client-side Websocket support via js.io. Fall-back to a custom comet protocol when websocket support is not available in the browser. [...]

Math and Creativity. Chocolate and Vanilla.

Posted on July 22, 2010 in: education|5 Comments

Many people suffer from a peculiar affliction. They believe that complex problems can have simplistic solutions. Like infomercial products, these solutions are usually too good to be true and there is a name for people who buy them. They are called suckers. A few months ago, I finally got around to reading Daniel Pink’s best-seller, A [...]

State of Web Sockets

Posted on July 21, 2010 in: programming|Post Comment

Image via Wikipedia I’ve been casually following the chatter on the hy-bi list about Web Sockets for the past few months. The specification has reached the final draft stages, but the list is still  a bee hive of rhetorical debates about several of the protocol’s features. The common thread between these debates is the complexity [...]

A Simple Quixote Server

Posted on July 20, 2010 in: programming|Post Comment

Here is a generic script that can be used to serve any Quixote project as an HTTP or SCGI process. I’ve found it quite useful when developing multiple Quixote2-based sites because I don’t have to worry about a custom launcher. This script will continue to live on at the official quixote wiki page. #!/usr/bin/python from [...]