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by mdipierro 18y ago
Mostly: - Group Based Access Control: login, logout, registration, etc. - CRUD - Built portable CRON capability - More powerful DAL - Read only forms - runs on Jython and IronPython (except for web server, lack of csv module, and third part
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by mdipierro 18y ago
Sorry.
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by mdipierro 18y ago
By the way... I think you cannot even define "best of breed" since requirements are subjective. You can only list specific issues where one system is better than another.
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by mdipierro 18y ago
By the way... I think you cannot even define "best of breed" since requirements are subjective. You can only list specific issues where one system is better than another.
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by mdipierro 18y ago
I do not know him personally and judging from his programs I agree that he is one of the smartest programmers out there. Yet, who determines what the best of breed is? How much time have you spent evaluated the web2py DAL vs SQLAlchemy to r
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by mdipierro 18y ago
Who determines what the best of breed is? Is SQLAlchemy the best of breed because it predates web2py? Then SQLObjects is the best of breed ORM. Kudos to SQLAlchemy because I learned a lot from it and it is a good product. It is just too ver
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by mdipierro 18y ago
It runs on Jython and IronPython. It can read SQLAlchemy models (has a compatibility module) It can read Django models, including validators (has a compatibility module) It can use Jinja2 and Genshi and any any other template language. Alth
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by mdipierro 18y ago
You can use SQLAlchemy with it as you can use any Python package you like but... 1) The web2py DAL is designed to work with SQLFORM. SQLAlchemy is not. By using SQLAlchemy you would be using web2py more or less like you would use Pylons, th
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Do you think you know web2py? Try again (version 1.56 is out)(mdp.cti.depaul.edu)
15 points by mdipierro 18y ago|14 comments
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by mdipierro 18y ago
Before investing time in learning a new language you may want to consider other "features" of a web framework that may help you choose. For example, give a try to web2py since it does not require installation (just unzip and starts). It inc
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by mdipierro 18y ago
Java remains is the most popular programming language out there but the number of Java programmers exceeds the number of jobs for available to those Java programmers. That is not true for c++, Python, Ruby. I know because the career center
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Beyond MVC Comments?(vimeo.com)
1 points by mdipierro 18y ago|0 comments
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Django models now run in web2py (and it does migrations)(groups.google.com)
12 points by mdipierro 18y ago|0 comments
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by mdipierro 18y ago
web2py and web.py are completely different animals, but they both eat pythons.
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Star-nix: web2py hosting service(star-nix.com)
1 points by mdipierro 18y ago|2 comments
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Web2py book on Amazon(amazon.com)
1 points by mdipierro 18y ago|0 comments
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by mdipierro 18y ago
In the case of web2py there is an object called XML, text passed to the view inside XML is not escaped otherwise it is. You can also do XML(text,sanitize=True) and you can specify which tags and with tag attributes should be allowed. The sa
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Web2py cheat sheet(mdp.cti.depaul.edu)
1 points by mdipierro 18y ago|0 comments
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by mdipierro 18y ago
Here is the table of content and some sample chapters: http://mdp.cti.depaul.edu/examples/static/web2py_manual_cut....
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The web2py book is out at Wiley.com (he-cda.wiley.com)
2 points by mdipierro 18y ago|1 comments
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Howto use Joomla Templates in web2py(mdp.cti.depaul.edu)
1 points by mdipierro 18y ago|0 comments
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Reddish (ycombinator/reddit clone for Google App Engine) open sourced.(groups.google.com)
9 points by mdipierro 18y ago|1 comments
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by mdipierro 18y ago
You can easily modify KPAX ( http://www.vimeo.com/1098656 ) to do what you need, and more. kpax is based on web2py ( http://mdp.cti.depaul.edu ) and you can download it from here ( http://mdp.cti.depaul.edu/appliances/default/show/37 ).This
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Web2py 1.38
2 points by mdipierro 18y ago|0 comments
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Web framework on the go with iPhone(groups.google.com)
1 points by mdipierro 18y ago|0 comments
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by mdipierro 18y ago
Here are a few things that you can do with web2py but not Django: upload/download streaming (as in deal with files larger than fit in ram), connect to multiple database, use pure python in templates, give tickets to visitors on error, devel
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by mdipierro 18y ago
way to go pystar!
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by mdipierro 18y ago
If you have questions you gave a very active users group: groups.google.com/group/web2py
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by mdipierro 18y ago
It is biased since I made it but I have emailed people I know from other frameworks and I have incorporated all the corrections that they have sent me.
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by mdipierro 18y ago
after you create the db connection db=SQLDB(..) you need to write session.connect(request,response,db=db). can we please move this discussion on the web2py google group?

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