Blue Sky On Mars

Thoughts on Building Software Products

Python Web Developer Appliance

by Kevin Dangoor

Jim McDonald of our local Python Users Group (MichiPUG) created the Python Web Developer Appliance, which is a VMWare Player appliance for trying out almost everything you could want related to Python web development. It’s all configured and ready to run. It’s a slick piece of work if you’re looking to tinker.

TurboZSI SOAP web services for TurboGears

by Kevin Dangoor

Charlie Moad announced TurboZSI today, which is a package that wraps up the ZSI library to provide SOAP-based web services for TurboGears. It looks good, but it also reminds me about why I like standard HTTP with JSON return values for web APIs.

The JavaScript Library World Cup

by Kevin Dangoor

The JavaScript Library World Cup: Dan Webb writes an excellent article providing a high-level view of 4 different JavaScript libraries (Dojo, Prototype/Scriptaculous, MochiKit and Yahoo! UI).