[socal-piggies] Introduction

[Grig Gheorghiu]

It looks like the Subway project aims to put together a Web framework
that's supposed to be the equivalent to Ruby-on-Rails (not that I ever
used R-o-R). I also heard good things about Quixote/Dulcinea, but again
I never used them. 

Grig

--- Brian Luft <brian at tablevision.net> wrote:

> I'm still looking forward getting paid for coding Python.  I've used
> it at
> work before, mostly just for automating tests, moving binaries
> around,
> testing COM objects, etc.  I'm pretty much a (*gasp*) Microsoft guy -
> well,
> all of my professional development has been Win32 or .NET.  To that
> end I'm
> very curious to see how IronPython progresses.  The thought of the
> ease of
> use of Python with the cohesiveness of the .NET framework is almost a
> nirvana IMHO. 
> I'm just really a tech junkie and Python was one of the things I
> tried out
> and stuck with.  I did some work on the early versions of PyOSG -
> Python
> bindings for the OpenSceneGraph project.  I've also enjoyed playing
> around
> with scripting Blender3D.  I did once use Python + wxPython to
> prototype a
> file sharing application for a contract I did.  I would have kept it
> in
> Python but the guy wanted the application download to be as small as
> possible and bundling Python interpreter + wxPython binaries together
> (~3MB)
> wasn't going to cut it. 
> 
> So I'm still waiting for that elusive opportunity to come up.  It's
> unfortunate that Python still seems suffer from a little bit of
> red-headed
> stepchild syndrome in the corporate world and it's too bad that there
> doesn't seem to be a compelling Web framework yet.  If anyone has any
> leads
> to Python jobs I'd love to hear about them...
> 
> 3/8 works better for me.
> 
> 
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