[CentralOH] 2013-04-29

[jep200404 at columbus.rr.com]

Thanks to Pillar Technology with Ben Rogers, Nate Bennick, and Bob Myers
for their hospitality.

Monthly bait: corrections and additions welcome

try keyboards
    Cherry Blue
    Cherry Brown
    http://deskthority.net/wiki/Cherry_MX
    IBM M13 buckling spring with trackpoint

pyohio
    seeking and encouraging first time speakers
    open spaces - use more with mini talks or dojoish help
        kata https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kata#Outside_of_martial_arts
        watching pycon talk and discussing it
        dojo: help folks
        catherine: help folks get started on _contributing_ to python

thanks to brian for posting after-meeting meeting before meeting
    
brian costlow
websocket(s)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebSocket
full duplex communication of a TCP socket
designed for servers and clients
compare to comet (better than comet)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_(programming)
ws4py
virtualenv is easier with workon command. E.g.,
workon ws1

gevent pronunciation (ask Joel about video)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_threads

autobahn.ws
WAMP
opened sourced glue layers
see github
    https://github.com/tavendo/AutobahnPython
    https://github.com/tavendo/AutobahnTestSuite

vnc over websockets
polling versus websockets
    wanted something fast and simple
each tab in each browser got stuff

twisted python http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twisted_(software)
    async event-driven library
    runs on top of epoll of kqueue
        http://stackoverflow.com/questions/970979/what-are-the-differences-between-poll-and-select
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epoll
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kqueue

    txws wraps other existing protocols
    https://pypi.python.org/pypi/txWS/
        adds websockets to twisted apps

slides and code will be posted to github and/or bitbucket for review and to
play with after Brian Costlow recovers from laptop failure

PyPI: gevent-socketio 0.3.5-rc2
becoming a de facto standard
github.com/sockjs/sockjs-client is a competing thing

China to relax 1 child policy: will need more workers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy#Prospects_for_change

Agile
big on pair-programming