Category Archives: headstock

Using Jython as a CLI frontend to HBase

Posted on June 27, 2010 by Sylvain Hellegouarch

HBase, the well known non-relational distributed database, comes with a console program to perform various operations on a HBase cluster. I’ve personally found this tool to be a bit limited and I’ve toyed around the idea of writing my own. … Continue reading →

Posted in hbase, headstock, jython, python | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

XMPP and IronPython 2 using headstock, bridge and Kamaelia

Posted on January 28, 2009 by Sylvain Hellegouarch

I am glad to announce that IronPython 2 is now capable of running my XMPP Python library: headstock. .NET has already an excellent XMPP SDK called agsXMPP that is a native .NET/C# framework. However I’m a Python developers at heart … Continue reading →

Posted in headstock, ironpython, oss, python, xmpp | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Geolocalization and microblogging

Posted on December 1, 2008 by Sylvain Hellegouarch

I’ve been working recently with Adrian Hornsby who’s been interested in using the microblogging example I had setup to demonstrate headstock, amplee and some ideas about microblogging in general. Today Adrian asked me how to add some gelocalization information to … Continue reading →

Posted in headstock, python, xmpp | Tagged , , , , | 3 Comments

headstock: XMPP library based on Kamaelia

Posted on May 12, 2008 by Sylvain Hellegouarch

I’m pleased to announce the release of the first version of headstock, my XMPP implementation using the Kamaelia library. My main motivation behind working on that project rather than using one of the existing libraries was that I wanted to … Continue reading →

Posted in headstock | 2 Comments