A new look

My blog has a new look after Blogger "forced" me to change the template.

Power of Twisted

I have been planning to learn Twisted for long, but never got a real problem to try it. Today, I was writing an XML-RPC server, and felt that this was a good time to learn Twisted, since I was not feeling very comfortable with the rather simple XML RPC server provided by Python standard library.

I read the Twisted HOWTO on XML-RPC and was off and going within 30 minutes. Within minutes I had the same XML-RPC server rewritten to use Twisted's powerful reactor framework. It took some time to figure out how to add basic HTTP authentication, but with some googling I was able to do this also in a couple of hours!

Now, I have a small framework which consists of a module which provides an extensible XML-RPC server using twisted with basic HTTP authentication. Since Twisted supports SOAP also out-of-the-box, it is quite simple to extend this to support SOAP also.

The power of Twisted is quite amazing. I am thinking of writing a version of HarvestMan which runs on top of twisted...

A scene from Dilbert

Dilbert and his friends Alice, Asok and Ratbert in the cafeteria.

Ratbert: Hiya Dilbert, your face is beaming; What is news ?
Dilbert: The Boss has moved on.
Asok the intern: How does it make a difference ? These managers are the same everywhere!
Ratbert: No, you are underestimating the black powers of The Boss. He can make it or break it. I have heard, he breaks it most of the time.
Alice: I heard Catbert might also get a move on.
Ratbert: Really ?
Alice: I heard something.
Ratbert: Good riddance.
Dilbert: Yup.