Compound Thinking

Bad Day/Good Day

It’s been a grueling week trying to wrap things up at my old job and at the same time get my new software development and consulting company off of the ground.

I’m definitely tired, and it seemed like everything that could break at work broke. Then I got home and was working when the TV in the living room made a loud popping noise and started smelling like burned electrical components.

But then I saw Kevin’s post that the book we just published is the 21st most popular technical book on Amazon. I checked out our sales rank, and we’ve also cracked the top 1000 in all books. That means we’re more popular than any other Web Framework, Python, or Java book, and more popular than Tom Clancy novels.

I know it won’t last, but it does make the day better. :) Thanks everybody!

PackageTurboGears Applications

I just came across the tg2exe which aims to make stand-alone executable TurboGears applications for Windows users.

It’s still alpha code, but looks like a very easy way for people who write TurboGears applications to make testing and installing their applications easier .

It doesn’t actually create a .exe file, instead it puts everything into a single easy to package directory which you can feed to an installer, or just zip up and deploy.