[socal-piggies] Project collaboration proposal

[Andrew Kou]

Anyone have good names in mind?

- Andrew

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Grig Gheorghiu
<grig.gheorghiu at gmail.com>wrote:

> There's no bitbucket project set up yet. Go ahead and create one if
> you want -- choose a good name ;-)
>
> I haven't personally played with bitbucket or mercurial, so if you do
> create a project and check some files in, please send some
> instructions to the list on how to check out the files, how to commit
> modifications locally, commit back to bitbucket, etc.
>
> Grig
>
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Silfheed <silfheed at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm willing to put some work into it, and I've got a bit of free time as
> > well.  I'll get a bitbucket account.  Is there a bitbucket repo/wiki etc
> > setup somewhere?
> >
> > Luke
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 6:56 AM, Grig Gheorghiu <
> grig.gheorghiu at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> 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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