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