I've been quietly hacking away on the Kid template system. There's been two releases with a lot of new features and changes so I'm playing catch-up here. I have a lot to write about so I'm going to cut this up into a couple of posts - I'm trying to break this tendency I have to let posts run too long.

I've been quietly hacking away on the Kid template system. There's been two releases with a lot of new features and changes so I'm playing catch-up here. I have a lot to write about so I'm going to cut this up into a couple of posts - I'm trying to break this tendency I have to let posts run too long.

This is the second article following up Phillip J. Eby's Python Is Not Java. In the first article, The Static Method Thing, we took a look at how Java static methods differ from Python class/static methods. This time we're going to dive deep into the evils of getters and setters. I'm hopping around a bit because this was the item that I saw the...

This is the second article following up Phillip J. Eby's Python Is Not Java. In the first article, The Static Method Thing, we took a look at how Java static methods differ from Python class/static methods. This time we're going to dive deep into the evils of getters and setters. I'm hopping around a bit because this was the item that I saw the...

I had a very small number of complaints related to basing Kid on ElementTree. This came in two forms: SAX and DOM are “standard” and while ElementTree is a drastically improved system for processing XML in Python, it doesn't matter because everyone already knows SAX/DOM. “libxml2 is teh rawk!” First, if Python's W3C DOM standard based...

I had a very small number of complaints related to basing Kid on ElementTree. This came in two forms: SAX and DOM are “standard” and while ElementTree is a drastically improved system for processing XML in Python, it doesn't matter because everyone already knows SAX/DOM. “libxml2 is teh rawk!” First, if Python's W3C DOM standard based...

I completely forgot to mention what is quite possibly the most important event to date in Kid history: the first real application to incorporate Kid templating is Ross Burton's sexy Tate (I said, “sexy Tate,” not “sexy Taint!”). It's an elegant, RDF / XHTML photo gallery that I'm dying to get my hands on. If you're into nice semantic...

Phillip J. Eby has a recent weblog entry, Python is not Java, wherein he points out a few aspects of Python that are notably different from Java but that are similar enough that Java coders working in Python mistake them for their Java counterparts.He touches on a few of the characteristics that led me to make Python my general purpose language...

Phillip J. Eby has a recent weblog entry, Python is not Java, wherein he points out a few aspects of Python that are notably different from Java but that are similar enough that Java coders working in Python mistake them for their Java counterparts.He touches on a few of the characteristics that led me to make Python my general purpose language...

I was searching for a specific piece of Dive into Python when I ran into this classic from diveintomark.org: Tom: "This is really good. You could probably make some money off this someday." Mark: "Maybe, but I'm not going to. I'm giving it away for free." Tom: "Why would you do that?" Mark: "Because this is the way I want the world to work."...

This is the second post in response to cross-breading ZPT and XSLT. I'd like to dig into how I'd like templating to work in Kid and Leslie opens the door for me: ... maybe this is the sort of thing Ryan's thinking about-- I wonder how hard it would be to hack this into Kid? It would give only a subset of XSLT's capabilities in trade for...

This is the second post in response to cross-breading ZPT and XSLT. I'd like to dig into how I'd like templating to work in Kid and Leslie opens the door for me: ... maybe this is the sort of thing Ryan's thinking about-- I wonder how hard it would be to hack this into Kid? It would give only a subset of XSLT's capabilities in trade for...

Leslie de 0xDECAFBAD talks a bit about cross-breading ZPT and XSLT and mentions Kid along the way. This is the first in a series of response posts. More than once, I've wished that XSLT was as simple as ZPT (i.e. less verbose and intrusive, more document centered), and I've wished that ZPT had some of the features of XSLT (i.e. ability to be...

Leslie de 0xDECAFBAD talks a bit about cross-breading ZPT and XSLT and mentions Kid along the way. This is the first in a series of response posts. More than once, I've wished that XSLT was as simple as ZPT (i.e. less verbose and intrusive, more document centered), and I've wished that ZPT had some of the features of XSLT (i.e. ability to be...

In Weapons and Coding, I made a prediction: The first environment [Java / .NET] to successful mesh static and dynamic languages into a coherent platform will win the interpreted byte-code market. Tim Bray must have come to a similar conclusion because he recently organized a meeting of the minds at Sun to talk about Dynamic Java. Here's a great...