Ian Bicking suggested yesterday that we have a Python Web Framework developer dinner meeting, and I helped to let people know about it, and get it organized. I thought it went pretty well, and I hope that there are going to be some interesting developments that come out of it. I just wish I had more [...]

Over on his blog, Dave Thomas talks about how other book publishers are imitating some of the changes that the Pragmatic Bookshelf has made. He points out that many of their competitors are adopting the surface changes they have instituted like “beta books” and PDF only books, while ignoring the deeper philosophical underpinnings...

Over on his blog, Dave Thomas talks about how other book publishers are imitating some of the changes that the Pragmatic Bookshelf has made. He points out that many of their competitors are adopting the surface changes they have instituted like “beta books” and PDF only books, while ignoring the deeper philosophical underpinnings...

Kevin Dangoor just announced the TurboGears 0.9a1 release, this should be pretty API stable, so all of you who have been using 0.8 can have access to easy CRUD, widgets, more advanced error handling, and all the other shiny goodness that has only been available in Subversion for the past several months. If you’re just getting [...]

Kevin Dangoor just announced the TurboGears 0.9a1 release, this should be pretty API stable, so all of you who have been using 0.8 can have access to easy CRUD, widgets, more advanced error handling, and all the other shiny goodness that has only been available in Subversion for the past several months. If you’re just getting [...]

Sean Kelly has posted an interesting comparison (warning 60 min video!) of Rails, TurboGears, Django, Plone, and Java Sevlets/JSP, and full fledged J2EE development. There is a lot of interesting commentary on this movie floating around out there, so I thought it might be worth while to try to gather some of that commentary in one [...]

Sean Kelly has posted an interesting comparison (warning 60 min video!) of Rails, TurboGears, Django, Plone, and Java Sevlets/JSP, and full fledged J2EE development. There is a lot of interesting commentary on this movie floating around out there, so I thought it might be worth while to try to gather some of that commentary in one [...]

Steve Holden has a blog, with very little Google-foo, but a lot of great content! I missed the IronPython talk, so I was very happy to find extensive notes on it. Steve is the author of Python Web Programming, which is the granddaddy of all python books about the web, and still has a special [...]

Steve Holden has a blog, with very little Google-foo, but a lot of great content! I missed the IronPython talk, so I was very happy to find extensive notes on it. Steve is the author of Python Web Programming, which is the granddaddy of all python books about the web, and still has a special [...]

I’ve been at PyCon for a few days, and I’ve been noticing how many stories we tell. We tell warning stories of failed technologies, stories of bad managers, poor design decisions. We tell bug stories, and all night hackathon stories. We tell stories about how marketing killed our projects. We tell horror [...]

I’ve been at PyCon for a few days, and I’ve been noticing how many stories we tell. We tell warning stories of failed technologies, stories of bad managers, poor design decisions. We tell bug stories, and all night hackathon stories. We tell stories about how marketing killed our projects. We tell horror [...]

Grig Gheorghiu has very complete notes on Guido’s Python 2006 Keynote talk on the State of Python 2006. I like co-routines, and I love the idea of getting eggs into the standard library!

Grig Gheorghiu has very complete notes on Guido’s Python 2006 Keynote talk on the State of Python 2006. I like co-routines, and I love the idea of getting eggs into the standard library!

I think we need to learn a lesson from the Ruby guys, they are marketing to individual developers not the enterprise. They tell stories that make it seem cool and rebellious to use Ruby. As developers, we want to be cool, they want to have fun, and we sometimes like to stick it to "the man." Let's not allow Ruby's marketing people to position...