I don’t have any statistics to share on this, but something that has just occurred to me is that there have been several instances over the past couple of weeks where people have mentioned that they’re new to Python while they’re asking questions about TurboGears. Python has been my language of choice for a decade, and [...]

Every time a prospective customer needs to make a choice, you open up the possibility that the choice will be to head somewhere else. A couple months ago, Apple offered: the iPod Shuffle, iPod mini, iPod and iPod Photo. I’m not going to count the U2 iPod, because that’s more of a niche gimmick sort of [...]

Every time a prospective customer needs to make a choice, you open up the possibility that the choice will be to head somewhere else. A couple months ago, Apple offered: the iPod Shuffle, iPod mini, iPod and iPod Photo. I’m not going to count the U2 iPod, because that’s more of a niche gimmick sort of [...]

This is the kind of morning I like to wake up to. A very interesting one. The first thing I noticed was email saying my blog was down. (That’s due to a problem with my MySQL start up script… I guess the server rebooted but MySQL didn’t come back.) Then I saw the mention that TurboGears [...]

This is the kind of morning I like to wake up to. A very interesting one. The first thing I noticed was email saying my blog was down. (That’s due to a problem with my MySQL start up script… I guess the server rebooted but MySQL didn’t come back.) Then I saw the mention that TurboGears [...]

It seems that many open source projects don’t want to put themselves at the magical “1.0″ number until the software is “done”. In my opinion, software is “done” when it reaches its end of life and is being put out to pasture. That’s one of the great things about software: it’s malleable!...

It seems that many open source projects don’t want to put themselves at the magical “1.0″ number until the software is “done”. In my opinion, software is “done” when it reaches its end of life and is being put out to pasture. That’s one of the great things about software: it’s malleable!...

The first time I heard the term “sprint” for software, it was in the context of Zope. A ZopeMag article also credits Tres Seaver at Zope with this and talks about how Zope Sprints are run. I decided to write up how I’m planning to handle this Saturday’s TurboGears “Dilly” Sprint in Ann Arbor in [...]

The first time I heard the term “sprint” for software, it was in the context of Zope. A ZopeMag article also credits Tres Seaver at Zope with this and talks about how Zope Sprints are run. I decided to write up how I’m planning to handle this Saturday’s TurboGears “Dilly” Sprint in Ann Arbor in [...]

There are lots of wiki programs out there. I mean lots. It seems like everyone has written one, in just about every language there is. Wikis are used a lot for software project documentation, because they’re just so easy. The barriers to jumping into a wiki and adding a page where one seems needed are so [...]

There are lots of wiki programs out there. I mean lots. It seems like everyone has written one, in just about every language there is. Wikis are used a lot for software project documentation, because they’re just so easy. The barriers to jumping into a wiki and adding a page where one seems needed are so [...]

Pricing is an interesting thing. As a general rule, unless you’re in a completely commodity business, price is not related to the cost of something. Price is based on the value of something and what people will pay. What this means is that the cost structure of a product or service is not necessarily in [...]

Pricing is an interesting thing. As a general rule, unless you’re in a completely commodity business, price is not related to the cost of something. Price is based on the value of something and what people will pay. What this means is that the cost structure of a product or service is not necessarily in [...]

TurboGears brings together four major pieces to create an easy to install, easy to use web megaframework. It covers everything from front end (MochiKit JavaScript for the browser, Kid for templates in Python) to the controllers (CherryPy) to the back end (SQLObject). The TurboGears project is focused on providing documentation and integration...

TurboGears brings together four major pieces to create an easy to install, easy to use web megaframework. It covers everything from front end (MochiKit JavaScript for the browser, Kid for templates in Python) to the controllers (CherryPy) to the back end (SQLObject). The TurboGears project is focused on providing documentation and integration...