Not that I was ever far from the computer mind you. In fact I’ve been sitting right here watching you hit my site, rather trying to see if you were a search engine. The past four months I have been coding every day and ngiht including weekends to deliver some projects.

Recently envieled at IZEAFest was the introduction to the Affiliate Program for SocialSpark. That was me. Four months ago it was kicked off; originally starting in Pylons. Roughly a week after starting it I had to break off and help out with the solutions center stuff for about a month. Working only in the evening/weekends on how to best build an affiliate program.

You’re sure to notice all the posts about CherryPy, that’s because the decision was made to go with that for the affiliate server since I didn’t need a true Python framework for tracking. I’m glad I did since CherryPy proved to much faster, and I was able to build a mini-framework out of it using Cheetah. Each controller is RESTFul, and the folder hierarchy is along the lines of Ruby on Rails.

It has been a long four months, even if some at work don’t appreciate it or even recognize it. However I am proud of my work and have lot’s of great things to present to you about my working with CherryPy 3.1.0.

The CherryPy script is a really simple deploy script and daemonizing CherryPy has so much more performance.

Using CherryPy under mod_python breaks the cherrypy dispatcher.

I know I spoke of similar things in other posts but I’ll get there.

Tags: cherrypy, Python

I’m still plucking away at this project as time allows using CherryPy. This weekend I just started to use it and finally got a working environmental configuration system and then next step was to figure out if RESTful controllers could be used. As it turns out you can not only use RESTful controllers but have the additional benefit of format types as well (html, xml, json, etc).

This is due to the CherryPy RoutesDispatcher using the routes library. I’ve successfully setup dispatcher with RESTful routes and have tests to show that they work as planned.

I’ll do a follow up post with working examples this weekend.

Tags: cherrypy, pylons, Python, routes