Ann: Python-SIMPL online tutorial updated to include examples of cloud interfacing

[bobicanprogram]

The Python-SIMPL tutorial is at:
http://www.icanprogram.com/06py/lesson1/lesson1.html

Several lessons (3,4, 6 &7) have been enhanced to include examples of
Python
apps interfacing to the cloud housed on a Linode.

The open source SIMPL toolkit provides a very lean Send/Receive/Reply
(QNX
style) messaging library.  A SIMPL application consists of 2 or more
interacting SIMPL modules.  A SIMPL module can be written in any
number of
supported languages including Python, C, C++, JAVA, Tcl/Tk or PHP.
More
importantly they can be mixed in any given SIMPL application.
Through the
use of generic surrogates, SIMPL modules are "naturally" cloud aware
often
without even a recompile.

In this tutorial a SIMPL receiver module (written in C) is exported
unchanged
to the Linode cloud.   Examples of Python modules connecting to this
Linode
hosted module via the SIMPL TCP/IP surrogates,  SIMPL tclSurrogate
daemon,
and Python-CGI are all illustrated.

bob