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I was pleasantly surprised this morning to find an e-mail in my inbox from a website called “Uptodown.com” informing me that they had tested Tubecaster and thought that their visitors would find it useful and so had written a mini review for it and provided a download link on their site. Apparently they get over three hundred thousand hits on their site every day, and Tubecaster is linked on the front page at the moment. I’m really flattered and hugely pleased that even in this reasonably early stage of development (although it already “Does what it says(TM)”) people are finding it useful. Thanks guys!

The review (in Spanish only) and link can be found here.

-Wayne

P.S. I’m proud to report that Tubecaster is the only Free & Open Source YouTube video downloader on the Uptodown website :-)

I’ve been doing a lot of research into design patterns lately, Model-View-Controller (MVC) in particular. I do most of my coding in Python and I found some useful links long the way if you’re interested in this kind of thing.

MVC discussion using wxPython – This is a great introduction to MVC theory and has some great examples that use wxPython as the view.
Google Developer Day 2007 – Python Design Patterns (video) – This is a video presentation on various design patterns from Google, presented using Python in the examples. About 45 minutes long.
Using MVC with dynamic models – An interesting discussion on using MVC when the Model is something like a simulation which needs to send regular updates to a GUI. Not particularly useful on its own but I found the discussion interesting.

For those people using my Tubecaster application: That is undergoing a major MVC overhaul at the moment so watch this space for updates.

-Wayne

Software Developer & IT Generalist

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Tubecaster Reviewed!

MVC / Design Patterns with Python – Links