señor taco’s travels

KP was in town for a couple of days after going to SIGGRAPH in San Diego and hanging out with his brother in L.A. It was good to see him if only for lunch. He seemed rested and well sunned.

I miss that bastard so much (well, to be honest I miss most of the East Coast Friends Crew a hell of a lot).

Last night was the August meeting for the SFOBUG. We were fortunate enough to have Bram Cohen come and give a little talk about his groovy application, BitTorrent (if you don’t know about BitTorrent just know that it’s one hell of cool bandwidth sharing utility for downloads).

Bram didn’t have a formal talk, but instead just gave a little background on BitTorrent (BT) and how it’s being used. He then went into a Q&A session about it. It’s 100% written in python (which is hella cool), has very groovy logic for TCP pipelining, and also is amazingly architected to provide the bandwidth sharing on massive downloads.

There were notes taken and I’ll provide a link to them (or the notes themselves) once those are available.