[Baypiggies] new web application framework.

[Shannon -jj Behrens]

On 2/28/07, Keith Dart ♂ <keith at dartworks.biz> wrote:
> Bob Ippolito wrote the following on 2007-02-28 at 17:12 PST:
> ===
> > That sounds like the same paradigm that Routes has. Maybe a different
> > syntax? I haven't looked very hard at Django because their ORM is
> > worthless for my apps and I don't like their template language.
>
> ===
>
> Yes, other frameworks do the same thing. The Django ORM is nice in some
> ways, but also a real problem. It helps to get started quickly, but
> it's not as flexible as we would have liked. We did a lot of stuff to
> work around it though....
>
>
> BTW, we also use, and this framework is (will be) designed to use
> MochiKit. I like it a lot. Thanks a lot for that. :-) I intend, in the
> future, to seamlessly integrate some Python methods to client-side
> Javascript in keeping with the goal that a pure-Python developer can
> create a reasonably nice web app without knowing javascript or XHTML or
> CSS at all.

I could never understand efforts to work around the need to make
developers more knowledgeable about their craft.  For instance,
reading the first 186 pages of "Dynamic HTML" is enough for any
developer to have a solid grounding in XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Oh well.

Happy Hacking!
-jj

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