
Hi all, I just wanted to thank the Twisted developers for making such a cool piece of software. We received a question from a customer late Friday afternoon about remotely viewing data from their data acquisition system. There are short-term options that involve using their existing fat clients over a VPN, communicating with a server via a proprietary format, but that's not acceptable long-term (for many reasons), so I figured I would try making a web-based demo in Python. Thanks to Twisted and Python, I was able to start from scratch and put together a server to present some of this data via XML-RPC in about 2 or 3 hours (and that includes looking up a lot of stuff in the documentation). I'm currently using PHP to display the data on a web page, but I may eventually use Twisted for that as well. If I had tried to do this in C/C++, or if even if I'd tried to do this in Python without Twisted, I'd probably still be fighting with it for a good part of this week. But now I have a demo put together, it's been running for about 7 hours with no problems, and we can go from saying "we'll look into that" to "oh, yeah, here's something we put together from scratch in our spare time" in less than one business day. Of course there's a long way to go before this becomes a production product, but hopefully this means I will be working with Twisted and Python a lot more in the future, and hopefully I'll be able to tell more about it as time goes on. Again, many thanks for such a wonderful piece of software. Happy Monday, Alan
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Alan McIntyre