Articles for Topic: frameworks
Time for a Django Documentation Evolution
Published 5 months, 3 weeks ago
As Django continues to mature - or more importantly as it captures more media mind share - people from many different camps will want to see what the hype is about. For those entrenched in another platform or web framework, comparisons will be made between features and methodology. For those new to web development, a desire to feel like one is grasping the basics and getting tangible results without a big learning curve can have a big influence. IT managers and system administrators will want to confirm that it can be deployed and scaled without hassle (or conversely they'll be desperately looking for reasons to justify extending their $100,000 proprietary licensing and support fees for another year).
In each case, an important element will help the investigative process: accessible relevant literature.
Frameworkology 101 Homework
Published 5 months, 4 weeks ago
I've collected a few articles that give fairly humble assessments of the perceived trade-offs of the differing design approaches of Python's currently popular web frameworks. Refreshingly civil in their discourse, there is a lot of great insight about the approaches taken by Turbogears, Pylons, and Django. It sounds like the authors are in agreement that there remains a lot of work to do in terms of educating developers using those frameworks how to struture their applications in ways that are best suited to the framework's design.
