cybercoder.com and google chrome not happy

So I went to cybercoder.com and tried to long in to their system with Google Chrome and got this lovely error:

So I thought maybe this was a chome problem, so I tried with Opera:

As you can see that didn't work so well either.

OK. So I'll try with firefox 3.5.3:

Oh dang, that didn't work either. I guess I'll zoom over to safari:

I didn't post the screenshot. It showed exactly the same error as FF!

Wait: in IE8 it works:

So I guess cybercoder.com only works for Internet Explorer.

Pyrant

Pyrant (http://code.google.com/p/pyrant/) is a fork of pytyrant that supports the TokyoCabinet table data store. Still in beta, but more actively developed than pytyrant.

recession proof graduate

http://www.slideshare.net/ramit/recessionproof-graduate-1722975

Interesting. Especially since it comes from a 22 year old.

Socal-piggies

Great get-together at the socal-piggies meeting today!

Cool presentation on some tools Dan Stromberg put together (pnetcat, looper), and a nice demo of TokyoCabinet+TokyoTyrant+pytyrant+restish by Grig Gheorghiu, following a retailed presentation, also by Grig, and discussion about REST for those in the meeting who had not been exposed to it.

There was a discussion on whether is was ever appropriate to expose (db) transactions as REST URI. Grig Spoke highly of RESTFul Web Services by Leonard Richardson and Sam Ruby.

I passed around some back issues of Python Magazine encouraging people to take the ones they would find interesting, and about half were taken. I'll bring them to the next meeting and hopefully they will all be gone!

I also promised Grig that I would do a socal-piggies presentation on the backend for grabatask.com that I am building. It involves an API in FAPWS with pytyrant that stores and retrieved data from TokyoCabinet throught TokyoTyrant.

I personally liked the discussion on how to use TokyoCabinet tables from within python. Great stuff!

Slide on Netflix Culture

Outstanding.

Mullally of Ford

I like him more and more. Guess I'll have to buy even more F stock.

(How's that for a disclosure of interest?)

pytyrant

>>> import pytyrant
>>> t = pytyrant.PyTyrant.open('127.0.0.1', 1978)
>>> t['__test_key__'] = 'foo'
>>> t.concat('__test_key__', 'bar')
>>> print t['__test_key__']
foobar
>>> del t['__test_key__']

obvious no?

from http://code.google.com/p/pytyrant/

Sharin's poem

I wrote a poem for Sharin Bhatti. She really liked it.

She noted that she'd never come across that meter. She called it Chris Meter. 8-6, repeat.