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Part 8: Deferred Poetry This continues the introduction started here. You can find an index to the entire series here. Client 4.0 Now that we have know something about deferreds, we can rewrite our Twisted poetry client to use them. You can find client 4.0 in twisted-client-4/get-poetry.py. Our get_poetry function no longer needs callback or [...]

Oct 24th, 2009 | Filed under Blather, Programming, Python, Software

Focusing on what makes human beings unique, Gazzaniga reviews the latest research across many scientific disciplines. It’s all good, and written in an enjoyably informal style, but he’s at his best in the later chapters when discussing his own specialty, the human brain and mind. Will have to read some more of his stuff.

Oct 23rd, 2009 | Filed under Books

Part 7: An Interlude,  Deferred This continues the introduction started here. You can find an index to the entire series here. Callbacks and Their Consequences In Part 6 we came face-to-face with this fact: callbacks are a fundamental aspect of asynchronous programming. Rather than just a way of interfacing with the reactor, callbacks will be [...]

Oct 19th, 2009 | Filed under Blather, Programming, Python, Software

Part 6: And Then We Took It Higher This continues the introduction started here. You can find an index to the entire series here. Poetry for Everyone We’ve made a lot of progress with our poetry client. Our last version (2.0) is using Transports, Protocols, and Protocol Factories, the workhorses of Twisted networking. But there [...]

Oct 10th, 2009 | Filed under Blather, Programming, Python, Software