http://alwaysmovefast.com Sun, 26 Oct 2008 00:25:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There's a lack of documentation on how to use FormEncode in real projects so I've been meaning to write this article for some time now. I use FormEncode in my Pylons apps and I created a small app just for this article. You can grab the source here: http://alwaysmovefast.com/public_svn/formencode_tutorial. To ... http://alwaysmovefast.com/2008/10/25/formencode-usage/ I'm leaving for Honolulu tomorrow morning so I may not respond to emails for a couple weeks. I hope every one is well! http://alwaysmovefast.com/2008/09/05/oahu-trip/ I will be in Boston from August 9-12 for Affiliate Summit East. I'm Looking forward to meeting some new people and getting some work done. It should be a pretty good time, especially with people volunteering to buy drinks at the meet-ups. http://alwaysmovefast.com/2008/08/07/affiliate-summit-east-boston/ I've been working on some Pylons projects lately because I've been wanting to move into using Python for web apps instead of Ruby. It took awhile to find the right Python web framework for me. I checked out Django, TurboGears, web.py, and a couple others. I finally landed on Pylons and ... http://alwaysmovefast.com/2008/07/20/pylons/ I realize I haven't written anything new here lately. I've been working on a bunch of pretty cool stuff that I really want to share and get in the open. Hopefully I'll be writing more about the stuff I've been doing. For database work, I've been using Jay McCarthy's sqlite.plt library. ... http://alwaysmovefast.com/2008/05/15/transforming-your-database-records-into-a-usable-model/ send/suspend/dispatch send/suspend/dispatch takes a function as its argument just like send/suspend. The difference is that this page-generating function takes another function as its argument, conventionally called embed/url. embed/url is used to embed continuations into a URL. To generate continuation URLs with embed/url, you pass it a function that takes the HTTP ... http://alwaysmovefast.com/2008/04/16/web-application-development-in-plt-scheme-sendsuspenddispatch/ send/suspend Using continuation-based web servers is a very powerful way to develop web applications. Continuations can essentially remove problems associated with back buttons and multiple tabs/windows in web browsers. The basic idea behind web server continuations is that a continuation reference id is passed in the URL of a web request ... http://alwaysmovefast.com/2008/04/13/web-application-development-in-plt-scheme-sendsuspend/ Building the Server Web application development in Scheme is something I've just recently gotten into. It's been a challenging and exciting journey and I'm happy to begin sharing what I've learned. I figured I would start with writing a custom web server built from PLT Web Server that serves files and ... http://alwaysmovefast.com/2008/04/09/web-application-development-in-plt-scheme-part-one/ Installing PLT Scheme To install for Unix-based machines: 1. cd /usr/src 2. curl -O http://download.plt-scheme.org/bundles/372/plt/plt-372-src-unix.tgz 3. tar xzf plt-372-src-unix.tgz 4. cd plt-372/src 5. ./configure 6. make 7. make install One thing to note at this point is that the installation is in-place, meaning it will install everything to /usr/src/plt-372/. So if you want to install in a separate directory, I ... http://alwaysmovefast.com/2008/04/09/installing-plt-scheme-from-source/ My Gateway laptop running Ubuntu has been giving me a really hard time lately. I think the problem is with the hardware getting old. It just keeps crashing randomly and crashes when it gets really hot. It got to the point where it was unbearable to work on. It would ... http://alwaysmovefast.com/2008/02/25/just-bought-a-new-black-macbook/