Finally Bit the Bucket

It has been ages since I have posted here, but I am back. Since the last time I posted I have changed jobs, and am now working with Mercurial. I like it. My hg kung fu is weak, but getting better. Also I have actually bought a domain, now the proud owner of www.ggivler.com. And I have created a server on Rackspace, and will be putting my webapps up there. Finally I have signed up for bitbucket to keep my source code available wherever I am.

My first bitbucket project is a project I call churchscheduler. The idea behind churchscheduler is a place where my church secretary and pastor and choir directors can go to enter their music for each Sunday of the month, eventually this will go on a rackspace or possibly a GAE server.

If this works, I hope to open it to other churches who might have need for something like this. It is my first attempt a building something that has a real world use. We will see how it goes.

My first "sprint" will be coming up this next week or so, as I work on it during my downtime on vacation.

So here is to maybe just maybe having a real webapp to work on over the summer, and maybe my summer of code will actually produce something.

The app is currently written in web2py, so we shall see how it comes together.

Writing Mult-Threaded Apps

This may not make me popular, but I think the only programmers who should be allowed to write multi-threaded programs, are programmers that have already written multi-threaded programs.

Which leaves me out, even though to accomplish the testing I need to accomplish, I really think it is a necessary evil. I will be posting how to log to your regular log file in SQLAlchemy tomorrow. Just not that ambitious tonight.

I must admit though there is an air of satisfaction in writing programs that spawn threads and do most of what they are supposed to do, and don't crash. But sometimes just thinking about it makes my brain hurt. Anyway tomorrow is day three of writing a testing script that I hope will give us the numbers we need to decide just exactly how much hardware we will need for the future of the project I am working on.