Python Secret Weblog for 2009 January

(6) Sat Jan 10 2009 14:29 Grok's songlist application:

I've been following with interest a number of posts that talk about creating a simple REST-based web application that persists the number of plays various songs have had. Here's the history:

• A pure WSGI application: http://www.eflorenzano.com/blog/post/writing-blazing-fast-infinitely-scalable-pure-wsgi/
• A easier to read but slower CherryPy application: http://blog.dowski.com/2009/01/08/http-utilities-with-cherrypy/
• An app using RESTish: http://dev.timparkin.co.uk/2009/01/happy-medium-from-wsgi-to-cherrypy.html
• And a followup using Werkzeug: http://dev.timparkin.co.uk/2009/01/werkzeug-and-werkzeugish-example.html

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(6) Thu Jan 29 2009 21:18 Cleaning up Zope 3's dependencies:

This week a bunch of us (myself, Christian Theune, Wolfgang Schnerring, Brandon Rhodes, Jan-Wijbrand Kolman and Sylvain Viollon) have been sprinting in my house at the "Grok Cave sprint". We've been working on cleaning up Zope 3's dependency structure, which in places is very hairy. This meant that you could often pull in one fairly innocent looking Zope 3 package and as a result pull in almost all of them. This makes it difficult to reuse packages and upgrade code. Loosely coupled code and all that.

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