hacked and learned 

the log scraper I made from scratch, same with the config manager and the rest api test utility ( how i mostly do testing of rest systems) -- 

for the rest server -- I couldn't use my windows ide  because it belonged to turner  so I hacked all my parts from other peoples code and python recipes  -- finally got it to work enough to submit 

was actually alot of fun, got my lab rebuilt with lubuntu on the old boxes and learned how to use pythons cherrypy and sqlalchemy -