New Milestone: My First Linux Application

TuxLast night I finished my first program that runs on Linux. If you haven’t guessed yet, its built on the PostgreSQL and Python application stack. The program is a server that checks and updates different files, while at the same time, has the ability to accept remote connections through telenet for administering the server.

I can’t go into deeper details about what the program does because of an agreement with my employers, however, I can talk about what I had to learn in order to put everything together. Later on in the week, I plan on posting a write up on Python and the Twisted Framework. While researching Twisted, it was maddening at the sparse amount of example code for some parts of the framework.  For me, it was authentication and integration of application code outside of protocols. Even now after completing everything, I’m still clueless on a whole slew of issues. I know most of the nerds out there will just say, ‘So? why don’t you just read through the source? It’s on your computer in plain sight.’ Since I’m still new to Python, reading through the source for the frameworks is like reading Chinese. As I’ve mentioned before, it all looks like a hodgepodge of pseudo code.

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