jupo.orgStephen McDonald

Hey there! In case you missed the whopping big title at the top of the page, my name is . I'm a developer from Sydney Australia, currently working at G o o g l e on Maps APIs Payments APIs . This page is an attempt to collate all the content I've created, from articles and talks, to my many software projects. If you'd like to keep up to date with my work, you can also follow me on LinkedIn , GitHub , and Twitter . Featured Projects CurioDB is a distributed and persistent NoSQL database, featuring a Redis compatible API, distributed transactions, and embedded Lua scripting. View project Kouio is a real-time online RSS reader, currently storing over 100 million searchable news articles for thousands of users. View project Mezzanine is one of the most popular CMS platforms for the Django framework, used by companies such as Google, Mozilla, and Oxfam America. View project Articles 28 Jan 2016 » Distributed Transactions in Actor Systems 08 Aug 2015 » Embedding Lua, in Scala, using Java, Oh My! 08 Jul 2015 » CurioDB: A Distributed & Persistent Redis Clone 11 May 2015 » Introducing Mezzanine's Core Development Team 19 Apr 2014 » Mezzanine 3.1 for Workgroups 23 Oct 2013 » Higher Order Types for Redis 29 Aug 2013 » DevOps Eye for the Coding Guy: Metrics 12 Jun 2013 » Bitwise Lua Operations in Redis 05 May 2013 » Sandboxed Jekyll Hacks 30 Apr 2013 » Building Social Apps with Mezzanine: Drum 23 Feb 2013 » A Tale of Two Queues 25 Dec 2012 » Gnotty 0.2 Released 18 Nov 2012 » Mobile IRC with Bonus Robots 21 Aug 2012 » Django Dash 2012 Round-Up 17 May 2012 » Circular Template Inheritance for Django 06 Apr 2012 » Topological Sorting Acyclic Directed Graphs 05 Mar 2012 » Mezzanine 1.0: The Aftermath 27 Feb 2012 » My Baby Sinatra Apps 31 Dec 2011 » Announcing hg-github 10 Nov 2011 » Django Model Field Injection 12 Sep 2011 » Open Source for You 13 Aug 2011 » Real-time Web Apps with Django and WebSockets 30 Jul 2011 » Rails Quick Start for Djangonauts 16 Jun 2011 » Does Mezzanine Scale? 01 Feb 2011 » How I Now Know Node 03 Jan 2011 » Grillo, a Terminal Based Chat Server and Client 27 Dec 2010 » A Nostalgic Django Development Guide 28 Sep 2010 » On Modern Web Development 21 Sep 2010 » Plugging In Cartridge 22 Jul 2010 » An Open Source Brief 11 Jun 2010 » Mezzanine: Just Another Django CMS? 29 May 2010 » Announcing gunicorn-console 18 Mar 2010 » Where is PEP 8 for Technical Documentation? 26 Jan 2010 » Linear Traversal of Adjacency List Trees 03 Nov 2009 » FTP Browser for gedit 26 Sep 2009 » Nokia E63 Talks & Interviews 29 Oct 2015 » Inside Mezzanine Tech talk, SyDjango 04 Jul 2015 » Open Source Roller Coasters Keynote speech, PyCon PH 21 Aug 2014 » Rapid Development with Mezzanine Keynote speech, PyCon APAC 18 Oct 2013 » An Introduction to Redis Tech talk, Fairfax Media 14 Oct 2013 » In DevOps, Whither Testing? Interview, CA.com 07 Oct 2013 » DevOps Means Large Orgs Thinking Small Interview, CA.com 26 Oct 2012 » Django Admin, The Missing Manual Tech talk, SyDjango 21 Sep 2012 » User Built Django Forms Tech talk, SyDjango 18 Mar 2011 » Melbourne Hacker Releases Django Apps Interview, CIO.com.au Open Source Projects Mezzanine » Content management platform Python, Django CurioDB » Distributed & persistent NoSQL database Scala, Akka Cartridge » Ecommerce for Mezzanine Python, Django Two Queues » Pub-sub utilities for Redis and ZeroMQ Python, Go Gnotty » Mobile IRC client, archive and bots Python, Django Drum » Mezzanine powered Hacker News clone Python, Django HOT Redis » Higher Order Types for Redis Python, Lua Grillode » Multi-purpose chat server CoffeeScript, Node.js Virtualboxing » Comparison utilities for Riak and MongoDB Ruby Drawn By » Collaborative real-time sketching Python, Django gunicorn-console » Manage gunicorn processes Python, ncurses Linked Out » Create PDF resumes via LinkedIn's API Ruby, Sinatra Klout Feed » Daily Klout scores via RSS Ruby, Sinatra Gamblor » Collaborative real-time 2D casino world Python, Django Babbler » RSS powered ELIZA bot for Twitter Python One True Repo » Combined GitHub and Bitbucket API Ruby, Sinatra hg-github » Mercurial extension for GitHub Python, Mercurial vimeo-deck » Sync Speaker Deck slides with Vimeo videos JavaScript django-forms-builder » Let users create their own forms Python, Django django-overextends » Circular template inheritance for Django Python, Django django-socketio » WebSockets for Django Python, Django django-pg-fuzzycount » Fast counts for huge PostgreSQL tables Python, Django By / steve@jupo.org / LinkedIn / GitHub / Twitter...