My presentation on Yarn went very well. My demos worked, my laptop worked on the projector, and the feedback has been great so far. I’ll have the slides up soon (and possibly a link to online audio).
Also I’m happy to announce that I’ve given Yarn it’s own home: yarnproject.org. I’ve talked to a few people here who are interested in using Yarn in their projects/companies, and the new site is a step towards making it more of a community project instead of my personal thing.
Lots more to say (did I mention I was at ETech last week?) but right now I’m kicking back after two mad weeks of work, travel, and conferences.
im new Python (very new, i.e. just read the beginners tutorial) but I am very interested in communications and Yarn seems very interesting..I hope to learn more about Python in order to implement yarn. Perhaps I could do a java version? (im guessing there is to much C stuff required that is not available for java however….ur input would be appreciated.)
great presentation by the way.
I thought Yarn suonded very nice; the portion of the API that was presented looked easy to use, and the feature-set described made it very appealing. I don’t know if I’ll have time to build an application with Yarn, but I’d certainly like to!
I wonder if Twisted will be able to run under Jython soon… or is that too weird? Anyway, I was pretty impressed with it too — I’d seen stuff on this blog about it, but the yet-another-productivity-tool syndrome kept me from really trying it out; Yarn separated from Hep might be more accessible from a programmer perspective. I’m still curious how the Twisted reactor fits in, and how well I can use this in a non-Twisted environment. (I’m fine running twisted in its own thread or something, I just don’t want to turn my apps into Twisted apps)
Hi Ian -
Twisted did run under Jython once (and maybe still does in a minimal way), but Jython has fallen way behind the CPython release, and thus apps/libraries (including Yarn and probably Twisted) that require newer Python features won’t run on it. However, there’s been some work lately on getting Jython up to full Python 2.4 compatibility. Once that happens, I’m very hopeful that Twisted and Yarn will be able to run on Jython.
It’s about 80% that I’d like to use yarn for my personal project. So I’m very curious your presentation. Is it possible to see it here (or at yarnproject.org) or anywhere else in the near future?
Thx
Tom -
I’ll have the slides up soon (probably on yarnproject.org, but I’ll blog about it here). For now, you can check out Ted Leung’s notes.
Will there be any kind of tutorial, or how-to to using Yarn?
thanks
Is anyone using Yarn? Is Abe still here??
Just curious, b/c it seems interesting.
Hi Craig,
I guess it’s a sign I haven’t been a good blogger when people ask “Is Abe still here??” on my own site :-). Yes, I’m still here. Tutorials are in the works. Also, I’ve just posted the slides from my talk at PyCon – see my latest post.
[...] And that brings me up to this year, which has had it’s share of highlights so far: a talk at PyCon, a book announcement, and an exciting new project. It’s inte [...]