I started developing web applications in Python relatively a long time ago. I tried almost them all in various degrees of depth: Python + CGI, Zope 2, Webware for Python, Subway (who does remember it?), Twisted Web, Nevow, Python + WSGI, Paste, Django, Pylons and maybe something else I can’t remember right now. Nowadays most [...]
Tim O’Reilly published his analysis about the market of computer books’ sales. With this kinds of trends you can have a feeling about what leads in the market categories and what doesn’t. I’m not surprised seeing Ruby (+53%) ahead of Python (+37%) and Perl (-21%), nor to see how books about the web design and [...]
Firebug is a very good piece of software, and that’s not a common thing. So thanks Joe for coding and releasing it as opensource. This is really the best tool every web developer should ask for!
Ready to start the next killer-application-based-web-2.0-startup? Whenever you start a business the logical thing is to start with an idea that everyone needs. Everyone needs to eat so grocery stores and restaraunts exist and will probably always exist. Gas stations exist because we need gas. Simple ideas that fulfill our needs and do a good [...]
Didn’t you heard about 37Signals rants about Google Web Accelerator? I quoted some posts/comments/interesting points of view (you’ll be the judge):
Anne van Kesteren came through well known (but invalid) IE blog mantained by the Microsoft Internet Explorer Team, seems all good except for a couple of sentences that made him (Anne is a male) laugh:“We also came up with a very original idea – popup blocking”Everyone but them knows that they are the last ones [...]
Today the W3C has published XForms 1.0 as a Recommendation. Hooray! now playing: Aretha Franklin & Otis Redding collection
Simon Willison speaks about mod_python. I’m getting lost in the plethora of modules/cms/templating system/web frameworks for Python. Here is a “must look at” list: Webware: provides Python Server Pages, CGIs, Servlets and so on…Cheetah: a complete and powerful templating system, it works and integrates with Webware.Draco: a web framework that provides sessions, persistence via DBMS, [...]
The Web Standards Project published an article whose title is: End of Free IE Not the End of Web Standards. Check it out.
Robert Scoble comments the latest Zeldman assertion about web tools and standards, and continues with a clever hint about RSS and the future.
