[Twisted-Python] Twisted Weekly News #11

[Luc Stepniewski]

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Twisted Weekly News #11
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So many announcements and new Twisted based software! This week's TWN
(especially because it is merged with previous week) is full of really cool
news/articles/software that will keep you busy for at least two months.

If you have any new information, ideas, announcements for the next
TWN, please write to me, <lior at gradstein.info>. TWN is also available
as HTML formated ReST on http://gradstein.info/articles/twisted_news/twn11

The Twisted Weekly News
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11th Issue. Tuesday, February 17, 2004

QOTW::

    <moshez> Twisted: Just Because It's Not Documented and Unstable
             Doesn't Mean You Shouldn't Use It

Discussions
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    * http://twistedmatrix.com/pipermail/twisted-python/2003-December/006856.html
      David Bolen asked if there was a way to keep the references to the
      remote PB object when a disconnect happened, and reconnect all
      automatically.
      Jp Calderone replied 
(http://twistedmatrix.com/pipermail/twisted-python/2003-December/006869.html)
      that, in its current shape, it is not possible, because the
      references are reinitialized when the connection is re-enabled. But
      he said this would not be too hard to implement.

    * http://twistedmatrix.com/pipermail/twisted-python/2004-February/007039.html
      Stephen Waterbury posted a code example on how to interface twisted.cred
      with a database where the user/pass is stored. A few days later, Stephen
      posted another example, less trivial, showing web auth against a db, on
      http://twistedmatrix.com/pipermail/twisted-python/2004-February/007063.html

    * http://twistedmatrix.com/pipermail/twisted-python/2004-February/007057.html
      Martin Stenhard asked how to get the remote ip address of a connecting
      client, if the connection is made using PB.

    * http://twistedmatrix.com/pipermail/twisted-python/2004-February/007074.html
      David A. Leedom asked for some advice on how he should design a remote
      backup architecture using Twisted. Michal Pasternak replied that he
      should pay a lot of attention on the size of transmitted data, as Twisted
      limits paramaters to 640KB max.


Articles/Sites related to Twisted
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  * **Nevow: A Web Application Construction Kit** 
(http://soundfarmer.com/content/nevow.html)
    fzZzy wrote a proposal to give a talk on nevow at this year's PyCon.
    It turns out to be a good overview of what nevow is about.

  * **Planet Twisted** (http://planet.twistedmatrix.com/)
    A new website which is a blog of all the Twisted developers blogs.

  * **Article about Twisted Networking** 
(http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2004/01/15/twisted_intro.html)
    Itamar wrote an introductory article about Twisted networking.

  * **Understanding Network I/O, Part 2** 
(http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2004/02/12/advanced_nio.html)
    Article by George Belotsky, on how to achieve network asynchronous I/O
    with examples of code in asyncore,twisted,threads, etc.


Cool Things of the Week
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  * **Rebirth of pyx/fzZzy blog** (http://ulaluma.com/pyx/)
    fzZzy has renewed his blog, with information about nevow and the successor
    to LivePage named liveevil. A first (very) impressive example is a chat
    application, located on http://soundfarmer.com/content/code/chatola/ .

  * **Nevow Wiki** (http://divmod.org/users/slyphon.twistd/nevow/moin.cgi/)
    A survey is online showing who's doing what with Nevow today. There are
    many really interesting projects going on!

  * **Beyond2** (http://www.asbahr.com/beyond.html)
    Beyond 2 builds upon the Twisted server and extends it to enable
    arbitrary 3D clients to connect to a common simulation framework.
    Twisted provides object persistence, remote method invocation, database
    integration, and more.  The project seems to restart/continue, with the
    help of Nafai and lstep. A Wiki has been set up on http://www.beyond2.org/

  * **Twisted Forum** (http://twisted.banquise.org/)
    Some new sections have been added to the forum (Snippets, PB),


New/Updated Cool Software
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  * **UpStage** (http://sourceforge.net/projects/upstage/) A complex chat
    application that allows streaming of video.

  * **BEEP protocol** 
(http://freshmeat.net/redir/beepy/31931/url_homepage/beepy.sourceforge.net)
    The BEEPy Python BEEP Library is an implementation of the Blocks
    Extensible Exchange Protocol (RFC3080), written as a Python library.
    The difference with the previous version, is that it is now implemented
    with Twisted! ("It is now implemented using the Twisted framework for
    fast, asynchronous network communications")

  * **Shtoom** (http://shtoom.sourceforge.net/)
    Shtoom is a pure python implementation of a Voice over IP software phone.

  * **Trash** (http://thorne.ath.cx/~stephen/software.html)
    'Trash' a pastebin application written using the Twisted framwork (using
    woven).

  * **GoSiege** (http://www.stranex.com/~perspex/gosiege/)
    A game on the Go game model, but in a online multiplayer (MMOG) mode.
    The code is really a very good example of well written code (at least
    from my point of view). I recommend it if you're looking for PB example
    code.

  * **Twibber** (http://slarty.polito.it:8069/~sciasbat/wiki/moin.cgi/twibber)
    Version 0.2.0pre1, twibber is a Python package aimed at handling the
    Jabber - XMMP protocol in a completely asynchronous way.

  * **Crow's Nest** (http://crowsnest.sourceforge.net/)
    Crow's Nest is a project designed to help collect log information
    from various sources and to apply some filter to them in a very modular
    way.

  * **PETMail** (http://petmail.lothar.com/)
    PETMail is a permission-based anti-spam replacement for SMTP, using
    recipient-defined CAPTCHA challenges for new senders, automatic
    (but revocable) permission-granting for most correspondents, encrypted
    and signed (but pseudonymous) messages, and provisions for easily
    changing addresses or transports (including a mechanism to publish
    remailer SURBs as a destination).

  * **PEAK 0.5a2** (http://peak.telecommunity.com/)
    (Not directly related to Twisted, but allows the developer to use
    the twisted reactor). The third alpha is available.
    That version includes a new framework (peak.events) that allows the
    developer to make his programs more event-driven (in the sense of
    subscribers/observers). The event loop, as usual, can be set to be
    Twisted's reactor.

Current releases
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   * Twisted: 1.1.1 (released 2003-12-10) (devel version: 1.1.2alpha2)
   * Quotient: 0.8.8 (released 2003-12-12)
   * Twisted Java: 0.6.1 (released 2003-12-02)



Ok, that's it for this week. Thanks for reading!