Recent infoworld column

[Dwarf Electrician]

from a long time listener...

http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/12/30/01OPstrategic_1.html

 

[Peter Hansen]

from a long time listener...

http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/12/30/01OPstrategic_1.html

Kudos for Roger Binns!

 

[Carlos Ribeiro]

Kudos for Roger Binns!

From Mr. Udell himself:

"""
When people talk about the heroes of open source, you tend to hear
such familiar names as Linus Torvalds, Larry Wall, Brendan Eich, Guido
van Rossum, Monty Widenius, Miguel de Icaza, and Rasmus Lerdorf. No
question about it: These people are my heroes. But so is Roger Binns,
and so are the countless other unsung heroes of open source. For
solving a host of vexing problems with quiet competence, and for doing
it in ways that invite others to stand on their shoulders, I salute
them all.
"""

That's recognition. Wow.

--
Carlos Ribeiro
Consultoria em Projetos
blog: http://rascunhosrotos.blogspot.com
blog: http://pythonnotes.blogspot.com
mail: (e-mail address removed)
mail: (e-mail address removed)

 

[Michael Hoffman]

"""
When people talk about the heroes of open source, you tend to hear
such familiar names as Linus Torvalds, Larry Wall, Brendan Eich, Guido
van Rossum, Monty Widenius, Miguel de Icaza, and Rasmus Lerdorf...
"""

Of course, I had to look up who Rasmus Lerdorf was...

 

[Roger Binns]

Kudos for Roger Binns!

It is a very nice article BitPim like many other projects is an
effort by several people, but what John did was entirely my code.
And of course that code wouldn't be possible without the various
components I had available to me which including Python and wxPython
as well as several others.

http://bitpim.org/testhelp/credits.htm
http://bitpim.org/testhelp/3rdparty.htm

You may also find a talk I gave at baypiggies in July 2004 of interest.

http://bitpim.org/papers/baypiggies/

It covers the various issues in doing a "real world" Python application,
including packaging them up so they are indistinguishable from native
applications, accessing serial ports, USB and SWIG, threading, the GUIs
available and why I picked wxPython, Outlook and Evolution integration,
dealing with an undocumented binary protocol, user and programmer documentation,
secure remote access etc.

Roger

 

[Stephen Waterbury]

You may also find a talk I gave at baypiggies in July 2004 of interest.

http://bitpim.org/papers/baypiggies/

It covers the various issues in doing a "real world" Python application,
including packaging [etc -- lots of great stuff ...]

*Very* nice presentation -- THANKS!
Especially interesting to me because my project
uses wxPython and I'm always looking at the
rationales of other GUI projects for their
choices ... I agree with all your points!

Wrt event-driven vs. threading decision, I chose the
event-driven path (Twisted). For non-GUI aspects
(e.g. services), it's awesome ... not as awesome
when the Twisted and wxPython event loops have to
co-exist. :^/ I'm still hoping some guru will
come up with a better solution than the current
compromises (timer, etc.), but they are adequately
functional for now, for my purposes.

Although I probably won't use BitPim myself (I'm very
old-fashioned in my cell phone usage I admire your
concept and execution.

Cheers,
Steve