(10) Thu Apr 15 2010 19:22 web frameworks considered useful:

There is a a strain of thought in the Python web development community these days that considers web frameworks a bad idea. Even beginners are sometimes told: why do you need a framework anyway? Just build your app from scratch with WSGI! Or just compose your own out of existing libraries and tools!

Thu Feb 11 2010 12:04 ME GROK BOOK:

This is awesome. There is now a published book about Grok!

(16) Sat Jan 02 2010 13:23 Python-based configuration in a Grok near you:

BFG 1.2 offers imperative configuration: doing configuration not in ZCML but in Python. The declarative configuration system is built on top of this. This is an interesting approach that has some merit.

Mon Dec 28 2009 22:47 New Year's Python Meme:

From Tarek through Lennart:

1. What’s the coolest Python application, framework or library you have discovered in 2009?

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Sat Dec 19 2009 16:44 Titus Brown on the importance of communication:

I just read an insightful article by Titus Brown about the importance of communication in a team project, in the context of open source projects. It is a very good articulation of a topic I've thought about a lot myself as well.