IMDbPY

heh awesome :) beer for everyone..

On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Davide Alberani
<davide.alberani@...:

> Ok, sharing the birthday with GMail is not easy, but exactly five
> years ago IMDbPY 1.0 was released, too. :-)
> And I can notice, with a bit of pride, that - _30_ releases later - the
> main API is still the same and the project is alive and kicking. :-)
>
> So, thanks to anyone who contributed with code, patches, bug reports
> and so on!  Let's celebrate! ;-)
>
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Happy Birthday IMDbPY'ers,

I have been reading along IMDbPY for two years now and my what a long way
the code has come.
I was fortunate to attend IMDB founder Col Needham's talk at the South by
South West Festival in Austin Texas USA two weeks ago.
While he never gave IMDbPY an official endorsement, he did mention it as a
way for developers to be creative with the IMDB data sets.
He mentioned that API's have always been a consideration though the
direction of the company has been mostly focused on becoming an integrated
data and entertainment platform... the goal at this point is to create
on-demand video streams from IMDB.com.

I think should raise some awareness of the IMDbPY as a development platform
in two ways:
   1) We really should be releasing an optimized EC2 AMI of IMDbPY and
related viable works.
   2) Plead, beg, buy 'em (Amazon and IMDB Head Pumba's ) beer, wine and
scotch to garner more support for IMDbPY as a legitimate development
platform.

Sincerely,

James Rubino











On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 6:03 AM, Davide Alberani
<davide.alberani@...:

> Ok, sharing the birthday with GMail is not easy, but exactly five
> years ago IMDbPY 1.0 was released, too. :-)
> And I can notice, with a bit of pride, that - _30_ releases later - the
> main API is still the same and the project is alive and kicking. :-)
>
> So, thanks to anyone who contributed with code, patches, bug reports
> and so on!  Let's celebrate! ;-)
>
>
> --
> Davide Alberani <davide.alberani@...> [PGP KeyID: 0x465BFD47]
> http://erlug.linux.it/~da/ <http://erlug.linux.it/%7Eda/>
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On Apr 03, James Rubino <james.rubino@...> wrote:

> I have been reading along IMDbPY for two years now and my what a long way
> the code has come.

What a mess? ;-)

> I was fortunate to attend IMDB founder Col Needham's talk at the South by
> South West Festival in Austin Texas USA two weeks ago.
> While he never gave IMDbPY an official endorsement, he did mention it as a
> way for developers to be creative with the IMDB data sets.

Really?  Explicitly?  SO, NO NINJAS TO KILL US ALL?! ;-)
No, seriously: that's the Greatest News Ever(tm), for IMDbPY.

> He mentioned that API's have always been a consideration though the
> direction of the company has been mostly focused on becoming an integrated
> data and entertainment platform... the goal at this point is to create
> on-demand video streams from IMDB.com.

I know, and that's understandable.  Taking business issues into
consideration, a public API is not exactly a gold mine - not to
mention legal problems redistributing content provided by others...

>    1) We really should be releasing an optimized EC2 AMI of IMDbPY and
> related viable works.

That's a thing I can investigate, at least to see if it's feasible.

>    2) Plead, beg, buy 'em (Amazon and IMDB Head Pumba's ) beer, wine and
> scotch to garner more support for IMDbPY as a legitimate development
> platform.

LOL. :-)


Thank you very much for the great news!

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