[TriZPUG] Links from tonight's meeting

[Josh Johnson]

I've been keeping a running list of links and stuff mentioned during 
tonight's meeting. Enjoy!

Links from the intros:
Chris Rossi's project to sell music to benefit Cy Rawls: 
http://www.cytunes.org/ (Be sure to come out to the CyTunes launch party 
at Local 506! (next Friday, 12/12, 9pm, FREEEEE)

IPC Stuff
Global Interpreter Lock (why IPC instead of ITC) 
http://www.python.org/doc/2.5.2/api/threads.html

Philip's POSIX IPC implementation: http://semanchuk.com/philip/posix_ipc
Monty Python sketch that was his inspiration for naming his example 
code: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crIJvcWkVcs
Philip's System V IPC implementation: http://semanchuk.com/philip/sysv_ipc/

Info on the "classic" shm module that Philip has adopted: 
http://nikitathespider.com/python/shm/

Some other alternatives Philip mentioned during his talk:
http://poshmodule.sourceforge.net/
http://docs.python.org/library/multiprocessing.html

A past endeavor of Philip's that contains some articles and code related 
to IPC:
http://nikitathespider.com/

The definition of a Semaphore (looking at the disambiguation speaks to 
the origins of the term):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semaphore
Specifically to programming: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semaphore_(programming)

JJ