Re: Questions about GIL and web services from a n00b

2011-04-18 Thread Hank Fay
Today I just happened to watch this session from PyCon 2011 on gevent and gunicorn: http://blip.tv/file/4883016 gevent uses greenlet, fwiw. I found it informative, but then I find most things informative. s H -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Career path - where next?

2011-01-13 Thread Hank Fay
I would second the recommendation for Django: on LinkedIn, the python jobs postings (there is a Python group there) most often mention Django. I also would second the recommendation to participate in open source projects. I met a couple of days ago with a college sophomore who is a core

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2010-12-30 Thread Hank Fay
On Thursday, December 30, 2010 9:59:09 AM UTC-5, kw wrote: Any GUI framework is going to require at least some heavy lifting in C, C++ or Objective-C (depending on the platform). A pure-Python approach to GUI development is technically infeasible. -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2010-12-30 Thread Hank Fay
That (the desktop app issue) was the big game-change for me. It looks like a desktop app, it acts like a desktop app, and our enterprise customers would be delighted to a) have no installs to do for fat clients; or b) not have to run a TS or Citrix farm. --

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2010-12-29 Thread Hank Fay
1) pyjamas has a desktop version. 2) I don't consider JSONRpc to be a deal-breaker, and since that's what pyjamas uses naturally, and since it's incredibly easy to use the Python middleware of your choice for the JSONRpc server, running in different browsers is unlikely to be an issue. 3) I