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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.

Update: Technorati informs me that they’re working on fixing this problem. So I figured I'd log into Technorati, update my profile tonight. Problem is, I apparently forgot my username. So I go to the login screen and don't see anything about what to do if you forget your username.

I’ve been reading a lot of various blogs lately, quite a bit of loud thinking and some 37 signals vs noise as well. A mantra I see over and over regards simplicity, and focusing on doing a few things extremely well.

Was listening to another Daily Source Code by Adam Curry today, it was an older show from a few days ago. I seem to have a love/hate relation to his show, on some days its really cool, and other days I'm tempted to hit un-subscribe.

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.

I decided the other day for a variety of reasons, to switch from the mod_perl web-app style to using Fast CGI with HTML::Mason. I only found one application out there that uses Mason with Fast CGI, which was the RT Ticket tracking system.

How often have you seen those sites with a form, and after you miss a field, it pops up a little message in red under the text box indicating what went wrong?

Growl is a rather spiffy little notifier for OS X I've started using lately. Currently however, it's lacking a nice way to send messages over the network. Since a project I'm working on would be even slicker with a way to communicate updates, I quickly tacked a Python XML-RPC Server onto Growl using Growl's Python bindings.