Category Archives: Python

Project Meniscus: Logging-as-a-Service for the Cloud (built with Python)

Posted on April 16, 2013 by Chad Lung

OpenStack Portland is currently underway and our team lead will be presenting on Thursday afternoon an introduction and overview of Project Meniscus to the OpenStack attendees. Out teams hopes to get Project Meniscus into OpenStack incubator status so right from … Continue reading →

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Getting started with Multiprocessing in Python

Posted on March 11, 2013 by Chad Lung

Multiprocessing in Python is pretty easy given the amount of work Python is doing for you behind the scenes. Today I’ll show you a few example to get started with Python 2.7.x multiprocessing.

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Getting started with the Falcon Framework (using Python)

Posted on January 29, 2013 by Chad Lung

Today I’ll show you how to get started with Falcon. What is Falcon? Well, to quote from the GitHub repo for Falcon: “Falcon is a really fast, light-weight framework for building cloud APIs. It tries to do as little as … Continue reading →

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Using Python to build a web project using jQuery (AJAX) and Flask

Posted on December 4, 2012 by Chad Lung

I’m working on a new project where I need to have a dashboard fetch updates on a regular basis from it’s host server. I decided to use Flask which is a microframework for Python based on Werkzeug and Jinja 2 … Continue reading →

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Tutorial: Getting started with Bottle – a Python web framework

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Chad Lung

According to the Bottle website: “Bottle is a fast, simple and lightweight WSGI micro web-framework for Python“. According to their Twitter page Bottle originates from Goettingen, Germany (incidently, a lot of German folks follow this blog). At first look you … Continue reading →

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Install CherryPy 3.2 on Ubuntu 11.04 and run it with Python 3.2

Posted on July 3, 2011 by Chad Lung

CherryPy has been a very cool project to me for a long time. Today I’ll show you how you can install it on Ubuntu 11.04 and run it using Python 3.2.

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Install Python 3.2 on Ubuntu 11.04

Posted on June 27, 2011 by Chad Lung

Ubuntu 11.04 ships with Python 2.7.x by default. You don’t want to replace that system installed version of Python since many things are dependent on it and Python 3.2 is not backwards compatible with Python 2.x. So the alternative is … Continue reading →

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Getting started with App Engine development on Ubuntu 10.10 with Python 2.5

Posted on December 14, 2010 by Chad Lung

Newer versions of Ubuntu don’t come with Python 2.5 anymore however Google App Engine still requires (as of the date of this article) that you continue to use Python 2.5 for App Engine development. Some people have been using Python … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Amazon SimpleDB Developer Guide

Posted on June 27, 2010 by Chad Lung

Today I’m going to review “Amazon SimpleDB Developer Guide” by Prabhakar Chaganti and Rich Helms.

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Getting started with Google App Engine, Python, and Flash CS4

Posted on March 1, 2010 by Chad Lung

Google App Engine is a fast and affordable way to get your applications launched in the cloud. Today we are going to use the App Engine SDK for Python to send data from Flash to App Engine and back.

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