It took me a while to bother to move my old posts over to my new blog, but LiveJournal's addition of obnoxious, mandatory, full-screen popover advertising finally motivated me to do it.

I couldn't find a nice way to re-direct each individual post over to its new home on glyph.twistedmatrix.com, so hopefully the title update is enough.  If you happen ( Read more... )

Those of you following me on blendix already know this, but I have a new blog.

While I may post something here occasionally from now on, it will be a much more personal flavor; my writing about work, about programming, and about technology will move there.

Masters of the planets (both python and twisted) please update your feed sources; you can ( Read more... )

Hot on the heels of the Twisted release, Divmod has a new, and hopefully much more comprehensible, sight design and layout.

Check it out over at divmod.orgI've long been ashamed of the default-Trac look and the opaque information layout on Divmod's site, and I'm really happy to have the way we greet the world be spruced up ( Read more... )

In case you haven't heard through some other channel already, Twisted 8 is outIn addition to numerous fixes and features, this release also includes a new release system for Twisted itself; this (hopefully) means that we won't have another year-long release drought.  We're planning to do another release in less than 3 months ( Read more... )

sirgolan wasn't at PyCon, but he totally should have been.

I (and others) have been working on him for years to release this stuff as open source, and he's finally done it!

Go check it out the Multiverse 3D trac site, and get the code!

Do it!

Do it now!

(and then start submitting patches to get its persistence layer ported back over to Axiom because I ( Read more... )

Some library maintainers, when faced with the impending incompatible changes in Py3K, decide that it's time to burn their library down and start over with a new, incompatible version.  "Python is changing", they say, "so people are going to have to do a bunch of maintenance anyway.  What a great opportunity to force them to do all that maintenance ( Read more... )

Summary: PyCon 2008 was a great time.  I didn't go to a single talk, except a few of the keynotes; I spent pretty much my entire time cross-pollinating with other projects and plugging the until-recently-secret Twisted Software Foundation - our nickname for the Twisted project's membership of the Software Freedom Conservancy (TSF/SFC ( Read more... )

I'm a big fan of Nine Inch Nails.  Not quite to the degree of buying every Halo, but I have a number of his albums.  So of course I've been intrigued by his latest offering.  Today, while looking at Nine Inch Nails "Ghosts I-IV' website, I noticed an interesting bit of information:
We have SOLD OUT of the 2500 Limited Edition Packages.

My great- ( Read more... )

I've previously blogged about twisted.python.modules, but it assumes you know about another API inside Twisted, twisted.python.filepath.  Unfortunately this module is rather under-documented and under-publicized, despite being extremely useful.  Unlike a lot of Twisted, much of the code in twisted.python can be extracted and used by itself, ( Read more... )

I do not want a book called "The Ghost Brigades", but someone thought I did, for a minute.  Those of you following this via my Blendix activity page will know what I mean ( Read more... )