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Articles:   RSOAP by: Gregory R. Warnes RSOAP provides a SOAP interface for the Open-Source statistical package R. It permits software to take advantage of the advanced statistical analysis techniques provided by R – running either locally or on a remote machine – using the simple and widely accepted SOAP protocol.   Simple Code Generation with Python by: Ollie Rutherfurd When programmers discover Python, they often fall in love. They find that they can accomplish more with less effort and less time. "How can I convince my boss that we should be using Python for our next big project", is a frequently asked question on the newsgroup comp.lang.python. Sadly, this article won't answer that question, but it will demonstrate a useful way to use Python scripts for generating code in other languages. None of the projects I've worked on during the past year have been developed in Python. However, I've used Python scripts to generate code, both Java and Visual Basic, for many of them. This article walks the reader through versions of these scripts to illustrate how Python can be used to automate the generation of simple and repetitive code.   4ss by: Uche Ogbuji 4Suite is a platform for XML and RDF applications. A part of 4Suite, the repository, is an XML and RDF database management system. RDF is the W3C's Resource Description Framework, an extensible system for managing metadata.   Pyro by: Irmen de Jong What started as a small hack has grown into something wonderful. This process took a long time, but it was worth it. In this technical article we talk about the use of Pyro for distributed computing, we discuss some of the more important implementation issues of Pyro and you're given a glimpse at future developments.   Kaa & Firedrop by: Hans Nowak Kaa was written a while ago and has since been updated. In the meantime, I started developing a new program, called Firedrop, to maintain my site and weblog. The second half of the present article is about this program, which is still under construction. Of the two, Kaa is more mature, but Firedrop holds more promise for the future.   REST Workflow by: Dave Kuhlman REST is an architecture for the design of Web applications and Web services. This document describes a specific application delivery model, REST, and techniques for implementing Web applications that follow the REST model on top of AOLserver, PyWX, and Quixote. Much of this document should be meaningful and useful for those who intend to develop using Quixote on top of other Web servers, e.g. Apache.

More Articles: XML-RPC for Python by: Mike Olson and Uche Ogbuji Covers the Python implementation of XML-RPC. Applied XML-RPC: Painless Web Publishing by: Phillip Pearson A specification for an early version of xmlStorageSystem, the XML-RPC interface Radio uses to publish files to the server, is publicly available and is quite trivial to use from Python. Based on this spec, I have written a server (Python Community Server) that is compatible with Radio and UserLand's Radio Community Server package. In this article I will summarize the features offered by "community servers" servers implementing the xmlStorageSystem interface and demonstrate their use. PyCon 2004 by: Trevor Toenjes Trevor talks about the planning going into this years PyCon and what to expect.