Blue Sky On Mars

Jonathan LaCour has sent up the call: Fast Track Needs You! And it does! A chance to help out with a new name, logo and look. It’s a great and useful project, and these are fun areas to help in. (Oh, and I’m certain Jonathan would be happy to accept patches if you want to help out in that way

In addition to starting my new job at Arbor Networks (which is going quite well, by the way), I’ve been working hard on the TurboGears book ever since returning from EuroPython. This has left me with little time to blog, and I didn’t have my work machine set up for blog posting (which is to say that I forgot my password because I never have to type it), so I couldn’t even link to interesting things.

I’ve fixed my blog posting problem. The next step will be to fix my blogging itself. I don’t have time to comment on these things properly, but I do know that I want to comment on them:

Bruce Eckel wrote about TurboGears at his Web Framework Jam. I’m excited to see this, because I’ve been a fan of Bruce’s writing for several years.

And I’m quite tardy in replying to Steve Holden’s excellent notes and commentary about my web track keynote at EuroPython. Sorry about that, Steve!

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Ian Maurer’s Python Web frameworks, Part 2: Web development with TurboGears and Python is up on IBM DeveloperWorks now. I haven’t read his final copy yet, but I did get a chance to read a draft. With today’s featureful frameworks, there’s a lot more to write about than can fit into a single introductory article. I’ve been trying to see slightly different things covered in different places to give people a variety of views into TurboGears. (The 20 Minute Wiki I presented at EuroPython, for example, used widgets, SQLAlchemy and offered tagging, making it quite different from the “standard” 20 Minute Wiki.)

Thanks for getting this great article out there, Ian!

I’m very tardy in writing anything on my blog, particular given how much I’ve had going on. I certainly would like to write more. I had a great time in Geneva, heard a number of interesting talks there, saw cool things at CERN and in town, and met many interesting and talented Python folks. I also got to speak quite a bit and took part in a fun web framework shootout. Reinout van Rees summarized my Working together on the web talk. I have a couple of corrections for that, but I’m going to be mostly in “radio silence” mode for the next couple of weeks because the book is coming due…