newaroundhere

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   by newaroundhere 16y ago

   I think there are two valid approaches here, depending on the project. One project I'm currently involved with has a team of content/design people who work on Django templates - giving them more power with a template engine like Jinja2 or M
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   by newaroundhere 16y ago

   I think what he might be referring to is when you run an in-memory SQLite database in your unit tests (which is common practice, for speed and convenience). If the test server runs in a separate thread to the unit test, then they use two se
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   by newaroundhere 16y ago

   I don't know what your experience is with #pocoo, but in general I have found the members courteous and helpful. If anything you seem a bit ignorant for rejecting a framework you otherwise seem to like because of an IRC channel. If you are
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   by newaroundhere 16y ago

   I think for a web framework to be successful (all other things, like features, being equal) it needs a few essential ingredients: - plugin ecosystem. Not necessarily at the beginning, but tha architecture should make it easy enough to add p
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   by newaroundhere 16y ago

   I'd also recommend a look at Flask: http://flask.pocoo.org/ . It's quite new but more polished and easier to learn than Pylons, and comes with excellent documentation and handy extensions. As you say, however, Django is a good place to sta
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   by newaroundhere 16y ago

   Agreed; why not have a site like this at least for Python ? Any half-decent Python programmer should be able to pick up Django quite quickly, and I'd rather hire a good Python programmer with broad experience than someone who has just used
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   by newaroundhere 16y ago

   I'm thinking of learning Rails (currently on Python/Django). However I don't want to put all the effort into learning Rails 2 if there are going to be a lot of changes. Is it worth waiting until Rails 3 comes along, or should I just dive in