The following publications and other items give you an idea of the quality of work that you can expect from Open Light.
Jan 29, 2007. The LinuxWorld article "BoSStats, FlightFeather and the Relative Static Web" describes the design philosophy behind the FlightFeather Social Networking Platform (see below).
Jan 18, 2007. First beta release of FlightFeather, a Free/Open Source social networking platform focusing on resource conservation and performance. The goal of FlightFeather is "social networking for everyone". The system keeps bandwidth utilization to a minimum, and should eventually support large traffic volumes with little hardware. This gives anyone a chance to run a popular social networking site.
Larger organizations will also
benefit from increased fault tolerance and uncomplicated
configuration of the FlightFeather architecture, while saving space
and power requirements at the datacenter. Since a live site which
appeals to many people is the best way to provide the real-world
traffic needed to develop a project such as FlightFeather, Open
Light also launched BoSStats.
BoSStats is dedicated to improving the world of work -- there, you
can discuss office politics, and what makes a good boss. Privacy
protection is an important feature of FlightFeather, which is reflected
on the BoSStats site. The application does not use cookies nor
collect email addresses, and you can post anonymously.
December
2006. A
Server (Almost) of Your Own is an article that describes how to
set up a Virtual Private Server (VPS). It was published in the December 2006 issue
of the Linux Journal, as well as online. The
discussion focuses on email, because it is the most complex service
that the typical VPS user would likely have to configure. The
article provides highly detailed, step-by-step instructions on
setting up a secure mailserver, and supporting various email
clients, including web-based access to mail.
Oct 26, 2006. Wrap Your Mind Around Python is a half day (3 hours) workshop that was part of the Seneca 5th Annual Free Software and Open Source Symposium. Seneca is a very large college, with over 100,000 students. The presentation takes the audience from elementary interactive sessions with the Python interpreter (numbers, strings, etc.) all the way to metaclasses. It concludes with several example applications. See the workshop notes for more information.
Aug 15, 2006. This talk at
LinuxWorld
San Francisco described how to graphically show
complex data in your web application. See the
visualization page for live demonstrations
and the presentation slides. You can also
read the related article.
Feb 2, 2006. Black Box with a View, Part 2, an article published by O'Reilly. It covers advanced design and development techniques for microcontrollers, including layered architectures in resource-constrained environments, and Object-Oriented Programming in C.
Nov 10, 2005. Invited talk (scroll down to Nov 10, 2005 date) as part of the Seneca College Speaker Series. Note that Seneca is Canada's largest college, with over 100,000 students.
You can view the presentation notes or download the S5 presentation theme. Feel free to use the theme for your own presentations, under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license.
Oct 24, 2005. Invited talk at the Seneca College Free and Open Source Symposium. You can also view the presentation slides.
Mar 10, 2005. Black Box with a View — an article covering embedded software development for microcontrollers (published by O'Reilly).
Jun 29, 2004. "Carmanah
Lights the Way with Python" is a Python Success Story. It
describes the effectiveness of Python (a programming language widely
used at Google, Yahoo, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories and
many other prominent organizations) in the development of embedded
systems. The story covers a project that Open Light performed for a
client.
The story has also appeared in print, published by O'Reilly in their Part two of Python Success Stories.
Mar 25, 2004. A talk on Python and embedded systems, "Python and Real-World Devices", given at the 2004 Python Conference (PyCon 2004) in Washington, DC. The talk covered a project that Open Light Software Inc. performed for a client.
Feb 12, 2004 — Nov 6, 2003. A series of articles on Network I/O, published by O'Reilly. The first article provides everything that the reader needs to get started quickly. The second article discusses more advanced topics, including a guide to selecting the right I/O technique for your project.
Aug 7, 2003 — May 8, 2003. A series of articles on C++ memory management, published by O'Reilly. The first, second and third articles cover progressively more advanced aspects of this topic. The series made the publisher's best of 2003 list.
Mar 27, 2003. The Flightdeck-UI paper, published as part of the 2003 Python Conference in Washington, DC (PyCon DC 2003). You can also view the presentation slides from the conference talk.
Learn how how to graphically show complex
data in your web application. This information was
orginally presented at LinuxWorld
San Francisco 2006.
Carmanah
Lights the Way with Python. The story covers the use of Python in
an embedded development environment.
A series of articles on C++ memory management made the publisher's best of 2003 list.
Seneca College Free and Open Source Symposium. Note that Seneca is Canada's largest college, with over 100,000 students.
Seneca College Speaker Series (scroll down to the topic Python - Capture the Trend).