Web Applications Blog

http://i35.tinypic.com/ri6lpg.jpg :/

edit: I'm sorry it's my mistake. I used zoom...

Olihen

Ouch, what browser?

Was developed in Opera 9.51 on Mac and I haven't had time to try it on anything else.

Too bad I didn't get a chance to meet you guys How was vilnius?

Ramunas, Vilnius was great, as always. Interesting night life, although a little quiet on Wednesday. Might have to take a holiday there next year, as the conference will be in Birmingham.

Let me know if you're ever going to travel to Lithuania again, would love to meet you(or anybody else who's interested for that matter), also I could help on choosing places to visit

python for the win!

PS:was the presentation viewed smoothly on everyyone or its just me that operashow is a little broken in 9.51?

deadHarlequin, the opera show is a little broken depending on your screen resolution/aspect ratio. I grabbed the CSS from someone else's presentation and haven't had time to fix it up properly.

Did you ever consider using Django over Pylons?


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noteme,
From the little I know, pylons is more modular, more flexible. If you know what are you doing, it's probably the best solution in pythonic web.

NoteMe,

We did look at Django but a) I'm not a huge fan of the ActiveRecord pattern and, b) We didn't want to tie ourselves into one framework. This was the first Python project in the WebApplications Team and we wanted to make sure the code we wrote wouldn't be lost if we chose to change to anther framework. Unfortunately with Djanjo your code is very closely tied to their way of doing things.

In hindsight however, after playing with Django a bit more at home there probably isn't anything we've done here that couldn't be done with Django. Basically just different techniques needed with how to modularise the application.

It's been quite a while since I tested Pylons, but I can't see myself go back after I tried Django a second time. First of all because you get so much for "free" like admin pages (easy when you want to get a page up and running fast). But then again, I have never made a page with this kind of requirements when it comes to traffic, so I can't really give any expert advice. So I was hoping for some expert tips

[Edit]And there I got it while writing myself

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Thanks Sharebear for your thoughts. Django has just anounced they will be a foundation from now on, and 1.0 is two months away. They have done a lot the right way I think with the free Django book and all. Will be interesting to follow in the future. And I hope you guys keep on updating all of us on your work.


Cheers,
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How soon do you need that position filled?

It would suit me down to the ground, I just need two or three more years to get my BSc.

Mickeyjoe_irl, pretty soon but we do have summer students every year. You're a bit late for this year but you could always get in contact if you are interested in working next summer.

In early 2010 I'll be looking for somewhere to do my work experience.

Do I dare dream?

Wew...

FYI, I've just noticed one of the links in the Capistrano presentation is broken. Luckily Internet Archive has a copy if anyone is still poking around these presentations.

http://web.archive.org/web/20080201030931/http://voxpopnetwork.com/codex/2008/01/15/capistrano-20-and-tagged-releases/

This last year I've become a reborn pythonista in my spare time and now using Fabric for deployment instead of Capistrano. I've written a 2 part blog post about the setup over on my own blog.

http://sharebear.co.uk/blog/2009/04/15/multistage-django-deployments-1/

http://sharebear.co.uk/blog/2009/04/22/multistage-django-deployments-2/