A couple of weeks ago I bought the book “The Definitive Guide to Django,” and I’ve come to realize, to my frustration, that the book is already outdated.  My big headache this week was dealing with the administration interface, which the Django people swear is one of the coolest features of the entire application server.  [...]

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I work with EXT and Prototype at the office, and Dojo at home. I have a lot more time with EXT than either of the other two, so when I’m working on a personal project my first thought is “If this were EXT, I’d do it this way, but how do I do it [...]

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I recently wrote a game, and found it very much like developing a Javascript-based web application. (My wife, who’s a journalist with the video game industry beat, insists “it’s a toy, not a game. There is a difference.” I will defer.)
If you’re a web developer who does a lot of Ajax, there [...]

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I’d gone to Borders Books find myself a copy of the Ruby Pocket Reference. I’ve long liked having paper books for some things; I don’t need the tactility of paper for fiction, but for reference it’s absolutely critical, especially when I’ve reached the point of having so many tabs open on the browser that I’ve [...]

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The website Elect Tina Orwall runs Wordpress 2 on a Gentoo Hardened Linux server running Apache 2 and MySQL 5. The client was given a copy of Wordpress 2: Visual Quick Start, which I consider pretty much the only book a client should need to make their site work. If she needs more, [...]

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I’ve never been happy with templating languages. Oh, sure, I use them. Wordpress (what this blog is written in) is written in PHP, and I’ve used eruby and erb for other websites. I understand what they’re trying to accomplish, but if the objective is to write an application that happens to use [...]

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Webware certainly isn’t the best and hottest and most wonderful of all application servers out there. There’s Paste, for one thing, which has a Webware emulation layer in case you ever want to move your Webware application to the latest and greatest. I’m going to use Webware because it works and because, as [...]

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For most of what I will do and show, I’m going to be using Webware For Python. I like Webware because it’s simple, and is more or less the perfect vehicle for showing various aspects of web application development. So, for this first post, I’m going to go through a usual installation of [...]

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