Python Turbo Gears and Jython interop
In exploring Python as yet another alternative to software development, here are two links to articles I recently wrote on the subject, one is related to a Python web framework named Turbo Gears using Oracle as the backing database and the other to an interoperability mini-article exploring Python calls inside Java programs using Jython.
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December 17, 2007 | Permalink | Comments (0) | Track Back (0)
Apple says : Hello Python and Ruby, and almost farewell Java
The stir came with the latest release of Apple's flagship operating system: Leopard Mac OS X. The backslash from Java developers using Mac's is well underway, no Java 6 and a busted version of Java 5. But guess what's being embraced alongside the Mac's preferred Objective-C language for creating applications on Mac's ? Python and Ruby.
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October 30, 2007 | Permalink | Comments (0) | Track Back (0)
The last markup parsers you will ever need : Feedparser and BeautifulSoup
Its becoming increasingly common to access and reuse data in markup formats, from the prevalent XML in web services, the RSS & Atom(XML) formats used in news feeds, to the HTML used in web pages. I don't know about your experience, but I've always found it extremely frustrating and time consuming to process markup data, so it is that I am happily amazed at the functionality I discovered in these two Python tools, or what I would dub, the last markup parsers you will ever need.
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September 12, 2007 | Permalink | Comments (0) | Track Back (0)
Django: Getting an administrative interface for almost free.
I believe in this day in age we can safely say the majority of web applications are backed by a database, and we use everything from ODBC, JDBC, EJBs, ADO.NET, ORMs or you name it, just to tailor the data and present it to users, unfortunately this process is often twofold for most systems, one dedicated to what end users will be able to see and input and a second to what administrative users will be able to see and modify. Seems the people behind Django -- the Python framework -- put a lot of thought into this process, providing an administrative interface for almost free.
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July 17, 2007 | Permalink | Comments (0) | Track Back (0)
Python and Ruby : On getting things done and geek marketing
Have you tried making web applications using Ruby or Python yet ? If your answer is no, you're not alone, I believe I've seen more Ruby and Python naysayers than those who seem convinced Ruby and Python are the next big thing. Though I am personally convinced Ruby and Python are superior for developing certain web apps -- tell you my short account next also -- I was a little reluctant to think of them as 'the future' as some rush to call them, that is, until now.
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July 5, 2007 | Permalink | Comments (0) | Track Back (0)
Ruby on Rails : Impressive, will surely shake up web development.
After using Ruby and Rails, believe me when I tell you, it has compelling reasons to be considered for your next web application and the capabilities to shake up web development as a whole.
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May 2, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | Track Back (0)