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I've read quite a bit of Paul Graham's articles regarding Lisp, how awesome Lisp is, how much of a dufus one might be for using a language programmed for dufuses.

Designing web pages is a pretty annoying task for most web programmers I've met, including myself. I'll be first to admit it, I'm not too hot when it comes to web design.

Really. I mean it. Where's Single Sign-On? Liberty Alliance was started 4 years ago to provide a competing alternative to Microsoft's Passport. It's taken Liberty Alliance years to get to any sort of usable starting point, while Microsoft has actually had developer code out there and usable since 2001.

So tonight I took the plunge, and converted the blog to Typo. It's totally slick, and I'm digging it. Plus when I want to tweak stuff, I don't have to mess around with Perl.

I was going on a walk the other night with my wife, and I think she noticed my far off expression and silence. She asked me what I was so thoughtful about, and I admitted my brain was a bit stuck on solving a complex algorithm involving recursion.

I've gotten a project site setup for the Routes port I created. Currently the port passes all the applicable unit tests I copied from the Rails route testing package. It's very rough right now, but a few people expressed an interest in seeing the current code so now its up.

I’ve begun porting the Routes system from Rails over the last weekend. It's definitely been a good brain workout, as the one Nicholas Seckar wrote that drives Rails is quite a brain-fuck.

Please Note: Reading the last post would help greatly for this one, and this post does end up comparing aspects of Django with Rails in terms of making decisions rather than actual usage.

A friend recently brought to my attention that I seem to have a knack for insulting a language based on a quick overview without actually getting into it. After thinking about this awhile I've noticed it definitely seems to be more of a trend than I'd like.

Myghty is a powerful web application framework that builds on the strengths of Perl's Mason using my favorite language, Python. While Myghty also handles page templating, it has some very powerful features that make it a full fledged framework in my opinion.