Archive for the ‘python’ tag
RESTful Web apps with Django, Piston and Ext JS
Piston appears to have emerged as the preferred method for giving your Django applications a RESTful API. While there are any number interesting things you might want to want to do with such an API, this post is about using it to give your Django app an attractive, Ajax-y, Ext JS interface.
Gnapsack 0.2 released
Version 0.2 of my client for the Backpack Web Services API, Gnapsack, was released today, and now has a new home. The two main enhancements are Windows compatibility and ability to handle multiple lists.
Agile tools in Ruby and Python
I spent a few months at the end of last year working on a Ruby on Rails project. While I constantly found myself longing for Python, I did appreciate the extent to which RoR carried certain best practices–among them an MVC architecture and Test-Driven Development–to an extreme, baking them into the framework.
The following table [...]