Re: Twisted book opinions?

2006-02-18 Thread Jacob Hallen
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andrew Gwozdziewycz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's really more of an example based tutorial book than cookbook. What it does do really well is 'networking programming essentials'. I found it quite a good book and managed to write a distributed ssh cron tool in an

Re: Twisted book opinions?

2006-02-09 Thread Eddie Corns
Jay Parlar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was hoping to get some c.l.p. opinions on O'Reilly's new Twisted book. Well I certainly felt that I understood it better after reading the book. OTOH I haven't tried to put that knowledge into practice yet. I think calling it a cookbook is misleading, it

Re: Twisted book opinions?

2006-02-09 Thread Tim Parkin
Eddie Corns wrote: Jay Parlar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was hoping to get some c.l.p. opinions on O'Reilly's new Twisted book. Well I certainly felt that I understood it better after reading the book. OTOH I haven't tried to put that knowledge into practice yet. I think calling it

Re: Twisted book opinions?

2006-02-09 Thread Matt Goodall
Jay Parlar wrote: I was hoping to get some c.l.p. opinions on O'Reilly's new Twisted book. I think it's a good book to get. I know a fair amount about Twisted but it still made for interesting reading. Tommi Virtanen (aka tv) posted a great review of the book shortly after it was published.

Re: Twisted book opinions?

2006-02-09 Thread Tim Parkin
Andrew Gwozdziewycz wrote: What I'd really like now is a 'Web Application Development with Twisted/Nevow' book that takes off where this 'network protocol' oriented book leaves off. I thought the O'Reilly book was pretty decent at describing how to setup a web application. It's not entirely

Twisted book opinions?

2006-02-08 Thread Jay Parlar
I was hoping to get some c.l.p. opinions on O'Reilly's new Twisted book. I'm coming at Twisted as someone who's been programming mainly in Python for almost 6 years now, but who's never done any Twisted development. I've used some of its prepackaged libraries before (and did some custom tweaks