[socal-piggies] Project collaboration proposal

[Grig Gheorghiu]

OK, good to hear that people are interested. I don't think that the
project being short is a drawback. I believe in instant gratification
;-) Getting something like this done quickly (hopefully) will give us
an appetite for more projects.

Grig

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:45 PM, Mark Ferrer <mvferrer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Although I'm quite busy at the moment, I'd be interested in contributing
> something to a project like this whenever I can. I agree with Andrew about
> it feeling like a short term thing, but it's a good start (at least it'll be
> easy to complete).
> +1 vote for me.
>
> - Mark
>
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Andrew Kou <andrew.kou at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I wouldn't mind working on a project like that. I believe Hurl was
>> actually a Rails Rumble project (48 coding session/competition). Also, I
>> think one of the creators, Leah Culver also codes in Python and wrote a
>> oAuth library in Python. (Just some random information I happen to know)
>>
>> Anyhow, I am in if you guys decide on going forward with it. One issue I'd
>> like to bring up is that this seems to me to be a relatively short term
>> project but who knows, maybe that's how we should go about doing projects to
>> keep things interesting.
>>
>> - Andrew
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Grig Gheorghiu <grig.gheorghiu at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I've looked at http://hurl.it/ lately as a tool to exercise Web
>>> Service APIs via a browser interface. It's a pretty good tool, and you
>>> can also install it locally, but...it's written in Ruby.
>>>
>>> I think a great project for our group to collaborate on could be to
>>> create something similar in Python, but with even more functionality.
>>> For example, I couldn't find a way to specify the HTTP request body
>>> for a POST request -- which is often needed when passing JSON data to
>>> the Web service API. In general, this would be a very useful testing
>>> and debugging tool. I've googled around to see if there's anything
>>> like it in Python, but I found nothing. As a full disclosure, I
>>> actually need a tool like this at Evite...so we'd have our first
>>> customer right off the bat ;-)
>>>
>>> What do you think? If we have even a few people willing to collaborate
>>> on this, I think we can achieve one of our learning goals. We can
>>> create a project on bitbucket.org for example, and learn mercurial too
>>> in the process.
>>>
>>> Let me know what you think.
>>>
>>> Grig
>>>
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