We’re looking for a Software Developer to work on PythonAnywhere, Resolver One, and our other products, based in our offices in Clerkenwell, London, UK. More information on our jobs page.
[UPDATE] This position is now filled.
Interested in an online Python environment?
We recently noticed that many of the users of Project Dirigible weren’t actually using it as a spreadsheet: instead, they were essentially using it as an online Python development environment. This sounded like a great idea, so we’ve started a new project: PythonAnywhere. It’s starting as a Python console in the browser, but we’re adding new features daily, and the plan is to gradually turn it into a fully-featured online Python IDE and cloud deployment platform.
If you’re interested, sign up for the beta waiting list today!
Today we’re proud to announce something new from Resolver Systems: it’s called Dirigible, and it’s a spreadsheet-like tool for Python grid computing. If you know Resolver One, that might sound familiar! — but Dirigible isn’t just a web-based version of our flagship product. We’ve written it from the ground up, and designed it to play to the strengths of the web and cloud computing.
If you’d like to try it out, you can sign up for the beta program on the Dirigible web site; numbers are currently limited while we make sure it’s secure and stable, but we’re bringing more people on board daily.
If you’d like to know a bit more about Dirigible, and particularly how it fits in with Resolver One, read on!
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We’re happy to announce the release of Resolver One 1.9! As always, you can download it here.
We released Resolver One 1.9 to get some useful new features out to everyone while we worked on our new grid component. It was originally going to be called 1.8.5, but there were enough new features that we decided it deserved a full point release number:
If you want more details, here is a full list of every change in this release.
Don’t forget, we have forums to discuss and ask questions about Resolver One, and there is detailed documentation too.
We’ve been analysing the UK political news and Twittersphere as part of a project for the New Statesman, and for a bit of fun we decided to see what else we could do with the numbers.
There’s an excellent Python library called the Natural Language Toolkit, which includes a function for generating text based on word-frequency analysis, so we decided to see what would happen if we hooked it up to code that reads the UK’s newspapers. We discovered we’d created a monster!
We’ve named it REABot, for the Resolver Electoral Analysis Robot, and you can read its political musings here. So far, it’s treated us to an overview of the electoral campaign so far, and profiles of the leaders of the three main political parties: Gordon Brown, David Cameron, and Nick Clegg. It also makes occasional appearances on Twitter.