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Alrond’s technoblog: The performance test of 6 leading frameworks. Very interesting read, as Alrond tested Django (Python), TurbGears (Python), Ruby on Rails 1.1.6/1.2.1 (Ruby), Catalyst (Perl), Code Igniter (PHP) and Symfony (PHP), using various load and memory testing utilities. His conclusion? Django is fast, and can be very light on memory as well. RoR 1.1.6 [...]

Last Friday at work we were trying to figure out a strange behaviour with the destructor of some of our wrapper objects in Python. We used a lot of wrapper object in Python to handle object life cycle of our CORBA objects, as they don’t have the built-in reference counting and garbage collection. So whenever [...]

Python 2.5 has been released, and here are some of the highlights and new features. I have especially been looking forward to PEP 342, PEP 343 and SQLite3 becoming standard package. Now, when is Python 3000 coming?

IronPython 1.0 has been released. IronPython has been on my “to-play” list ever since the start of this project, and being an “old school” developer I would love to take a look on .NET.

Don’t like the fact that there is no braces in Python? Fancy to have curly brackets around your code blocks? Well, not a chance. $ python Python 2.4.3 (#1, Jul 22 2006, 23:54:13) [GCC 3.4.6 (Gentoo 3.4.6-r1, ssp-3.4.5-1.0, pie-8.7.9)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> from __future__ import braces [...]

Simon of the Django fame has put together Python Developer Centre for Yahoo! Developer Network. Many useful articles on how to access Yahoo’s API with Python, and hopefully there will be more upcoming.

First of all, I like FLOSS, a podcast where Chris DiBona and Leo Laporte interviews various respective figures in the free/libral/open source software scene. Ever since they advertised that Guido van Rossum will be in the next show, I have been eagerly waiting for this interview. Well, it is finally here, where Guido talked about [...]

Jeremy Zawodny asked “Ruby or Python”, when trying to pick up a new language to add into his collection of tools. Many have contributed comments, and so far there seems to be more Python people on board, even though many have tried to comment subjectively (Ian Bicking for example). Interesting thread to watch if you [...]

web.py, the minimalistic Python web application framework which I rant about two and half months ago, has been re-released as Public Domain by its author Aaron Swartz, announced in this mail to the news group.

One of Guido‘s earliest assignment at Google is to write a mid-size web applications for internal use, and he is sharing his opinions on his research on Python web frameworks. At the end he hasn’t found anything that is satisfactory, even though the requirement is straight forward. By browsing through the comments, despite Python’s “one [...]