Eweek says that Ruby on Rails is poised to overtake Java as the language of choice for the web: However, the non-Java Ruby on Rails, which is based on the Ruby dynamic language, has posed perhaps the biggest threat to Java development on the Web tier. And perhaps the biggest Java “pressure-izer” is David Heinemeier [...]
Quoth Fuzzyman: So Guido has conceded, class decorators will make it into some future version of Python; but probably not the imminent 2.5. It’s nice to see that Guido is flexible in introducing features in Python that support the alternative implementations. And Python creeps another step closer to Perl. Via: Lambda the Ultimate
I finally got around to uploading the slides from the presentations I’ve done at CPLUG meetings. So far you can check out the following topics: Building an IPCop Firewall – May 10, 2005 A Beginner’s Guide to MediaWiki – November 8, 2005 An Overview of Synergy – November 10, 2004 Enjoy.
Tomorrow is the 7th Python Bug Day, scheduled for right before the Python 2.5 alpha 1 release. Quoth the announcement: The aim of the bug day is to close as many bugs, patches and feature requests as possible, this time with a focus on small feature additions that can still go into the upcoming 2.5 [...]
The Scripps media/newspaper company will be moving 15 of their sites to Django. Specifically, they will be using the Ellington CMS. Quoth Adrian: Getting Django (and Python) onto so many more Real-World production sites is a huge win for the framework and the Python programming language. That list of Django-powered sites keeps growing and growing. [...]
