Episode 12: S3, Flex, and Django

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This week the Faceoff boys talk about Amazon’s Simple Storage Service, Adobe Flex, and the Python web framework Django.

News and Follow-Ups

• 00:36 – Redbull Simply Cola and Brain Toniq
• 02:37 – Whitehouse is using Google Apps specifically, Google Moderator
• 06:22 – Meebo has a new perspective on advertising
  • Facebook chat

Webapps

• 13:41 – Moo.com – Color front and back business cards
  • 16:44 – Colourlovers – Integrated color selection for Moo.com
• 21:14 – 3 Buck Bites – Food under three dollars.  Cheap food in the nude?

Topics

• 27:06 – Amazon S3 – Online scalable storage solution for anyone
• 37:40 – Flex – Scripting language for Flash
• 46:41 – Django – Python MVC framework
  • Google making Python fast as an Unladen Swallow
  • Vim – Automatically detects and tabs properly in Python
    

Tags: 3buckbites, advertising, Amazon S3, Brain Toniq, Colourlovers, Django, Facebook, Flex, Google Moderator, Meebo, Moo.com, Python, Redbull, Unladen Swollow, Vim, Whitehouse

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3 Responses to “Episode 12: S3, Flex, and Django”

• Jeffry Houser Says:
  April 15th, 2009 at 2:05 pm

  Random comments while I’m listening to the Flex piece from this episode:

  Flex is a way for programmers to create Flash Applications. It is an UI Framework with a lot of interface pieces as part of the application interface.

  The Flex compiler does indeed turn your ActionScript3 and MXML code into a SWF.

  Flash Professional is focused on the animation / creative side, as you mentioned like HomeStarRunner.

  Flash Player 9 introduced ActionScript 3 which made ActionScript an ECMA Compliant language.

  I’d love to come on and talk about it if you want.
• Paul Says:
  April 15th, 2009 at 2:48 pm

  Python only requires an “extra” newline after a function or class in the interactive interpreter.
• Brian Jain Says:
  March 6th, 2010 at 12:34 pm

  Thanks for this post. I am new at python and this was a big help.

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