Having a twisted environment, I have been able to write a simple web resource handler. I like twisted, although the documentation is pretty weak, so you have to go down to read the code rather frequently if you want to know how to do things.
Python 2.5.1 is bundled into Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), which comes also with setuptools. The breadth of easy_install packages is available pretty much at your fingertips on Leopard.
We know the social web needs real-time event notifications, and that polling sucks. Some are wondering whether we can implement it using asynchronous messaging, ala Pub/Sub. The Publish/Subscribe is an architectural paradigm allowing asynchronous messaging from one sender (publisher) to many receivers (subscribers). PubSub is a common architecture in financial services, since it’s associated with persistence and ensured message delivery. But such qualities don’t come for free: there are complexity trade-offs.
I wrote about this header a little while ago in my onesoup blog, but since I have received various emails from folks asking me whether I’d continue or not with onesoup. Basically, they all make the point that there is a latent customer base on old phones with the native client.
Because that’s really what it is. Somebody that was not fitted and loosing big (aka Western Cultures) has just started a new game of Monopoly, and you and I are not getting any of the money in this new game. Some may call it the end of capitalism, but I would go even further, this is the end of Darwinism (and a prove that Hegel was looking at the past, and not the future like Marx wanted to see in it).