Yet another Rails/Django Comparison:

In this paper, we compare the two frameworks from the point of view of a developer attempting to choose one of the two frameworks for a new project.

This one appears to be a little more “academic” than others. Check it out.

Thanks go to Lon for the link.

Quoth Ryan Tomayko:

As the original and primary author of Kid, I’m extremely happy to now endorse Genshi as the state of the art in XML based templating. By all accounts, it is a superb system that takes Kid to another level and has already grown an impressive community.

Read the whole thing.

Mike still likes Django more than Rails.

Someone on Craigslist is looking for a Django guru, Python wizard, and a database jockey… all in one person.

Quoth Ian at LAMP Training:

We deliver on-site courses throughout the US and worldwide on a range of web technologies, drawing from our personal experience of developing and deploying web-applications, creating web-frameworks, and contributing to open-source software.

Course categories include Web 2.0, Python, Django, and Linux/MySQL/PostgreSQL.

If you are running Django on a 32-bit system, you can use psyco to double your rendering speeds.

Upgraded to WordPress 2.0.5 tonight. This release includes “mostly minor bug fixes around feeds, custom fields, and internationalization.”

As usual, the upgrade was quick, easy, and painless.

The first four chapters of the Django book are now online, with a total of almost 500 comments. Cool.

If I understand correctly, some of the people in the #django chan decided to build something to “make it easier to publish and share Django related contents and projects.” They are calling the project DjangoForge, and it looks like Sean Schertell registered the related domains.

A Launchpad project has been created for it, and they appear to have some frontend object specification ideas written down. Looks like a good start.

I really think this project makes a lot of sense. I’m sure there are already many people writing the same applications to do the same tasks. It would be nice to be able to go to a site and check ratings for existing Django weblog apps, for example.

Hopefully something will come of this.

Need to generate every permutation of a sequence in your script? Here’s a recursive function that uses generators.