October 2005
8 posts
5 tags
Best of breed Controllers for MVC web frameworks
I’ve been doing a lot of comparisons and research into various Python web frameworks lately, mainly focused on MVC oriented frameworks. Some of them have templating languages they come with, some not so much. The thing I have started to notice is how similar the Controller in them all is starting to look. First though, lets see what they all can do when it comes to the Controller.
For...
September 2005
6 posts
2 tags
setuptools and Python Paste
I indicated in my last article that I would begin blogging about a very misunderstood, and what I would consider unappreciated Python package called PythonPaste. Python Paste is currently undergoing a documentation and website update after which it will hopefully be much more useful for those wishing to use it, or even understand why they’d want to.
To really get started with Python Paste its...
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Routes 0.2 released
Routes 0.2 has been released. The change-log is pitifully short:
Added prefix option
Fixed Python 2.3 bug with thread-local singleton
But hey, its a small package to begin with so what the heck. Though its only 0.2 I’m rather pleased with it so far, its performance is great and quite reliable so I’m using it in production environments already.
If you haven’t been following my blog...
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Ghost in the Prius
I’ve owned my 2004 Silver Prius for about 18 months now, and in that time the only ‘problem’ I’ve had is the hilariously named Red Triangle of Death often fondly referred to as the Red Triangle of Doom as well (I shall now refer to it as the RToD).
In the case of the RToD, the problem itself seemed to go away after leaving the car off for a little while, much like this poster describes. I...
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Presentation on SQLObject & FormEncode
I gave a presentation tonight on SQLObject & FormEncode for the Bay Area Python Users Group (BayPiggies). Here are the slides for the presentation, which actually have 3 extra slides I didn’t show during the presentation because I forgot they were there (doh!).
Anyways, there were rather important I think as they actually showed two common cases where you’d want to use SQLObject and...
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Separating Web Development Environments in Myghty
On many occasions, its quite useful when developing web applications to have the webapp know whether its in a production/development/testing environment. Rails builds this into the framework and its rather easy to add this toggle throughout a Myghty webapp (or some other Python web framework) as well.
We’ll make use of an environment variable so that the webapp environment can be easily...