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I first heard about Python from a roommate about 5 or 6 years ago. He was putting together a presentation for some Bio-informatics people, and was going to go over the basics of Python programming as its very popular in the scientific community.

In a prior post on handling form data I covered how to easily populate a form using FormEncode/SQLObject and validate/save the data. One of the things I noted was that I had to take the HTML form output first, and use htmlfill with it to populate it with defaults and errors before displaying.

I keep seeing blogs and blog comments pop up with some very odd notions. Many of these are summed up in this comment from a recent post by Tim on Ruby books

I've finally finished the documentation for Routes and as I mentioned earlier regarded releases am now ready for a 1.0 release. If you're curious about Routes and want to get up to speed, I'd suggest jumping straight to the Routes Manual.

TurboGears has been making some impressive strides in both features, documentation, and possible user acquisition lately. Where it gets somewhat interesting is regarding its user-base though. The approach TG takes – building glue on top of other projects – is not new, as Subway also utilizes this, however the popularity TG has been enjoying has resulted in some interesting by-products.

One of the advantages to using SQLObject is that the code you write in it can easily be constructed in a way that ensures it'll work without a problem in all the databases SQLObject supports.

Ruby is a fairly interesting programming language, from the “expressive” syntax to some of the absolutely bizarre documentation. For a Python programmer, the lack of predictability and almost excessively concise syntax (when just one more line would really make things a lot clearer) can be a bit of a downer.

TextMate is a rather slick little text editor, with a bunch of cool automation stuff thats great for programmers. You've probably already seen it if you've watched any of those demo movies for some of the latest web frameworks.

I've almost got a 1.0 ready of Routes. After reading Kevin Dangoor's post on the mysterious 1.0 I've come to the conclusion that Routes is 1.0 ready. In case you aren't familiar with Routes, I'd suggest taking a look at one of my earlier posts about it.

I've been programming web sites for many years, and have yet to come across a templating language as appealing as Mason / Myghty. To avoid confusion I'm going to talk about Myghty, but since its a direct port of Mason (plus some MVC stuff) all of my comments apply to Mason as well (unless otherwise noted).