Django Dash, Python, Ruby (Changelog Interviews #36)

Kenneth and Wynn caught up with Daniel, Christian, and Matt from Pragmatic Badger to talk about the Django Dash, Python, and Ruby.

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Show Notes:

• Daniel, Christian, and Matt from Pragmatic Badger host the Django Dash.


• Django Dash - you’ve got 48 hours to build a Django app. Go!


• Pyweek - Build a Python app in a week


• Rails Rumble - Ruby on Rails’ a own 48 hour web application development competition.


• The Dash rules


• Great Big Crane - 2010 Dash winner


• The Dash moved to distributed version control this year on GitHub & BitBucket


• Love for Pythons’ explicit imports and Python’s module system


• Twisted - an event-driven networking engine written in Python.


• Node.js - Evented I/O for V8 JavaScript.


• Eventlet - a concurrent networking library for Python that allows you to change how you run your code, not how you write it.


• EventMachine - fast, simple event-processing library for Ruby programs.


• Christian is using Compass and Sass in Django, but hates on Haml


• Forkinit - forkin’ brilliant! Share and fork your favorite recipes.


• Flask - Flask is a microframework for Python based on Werkzeug, Jinja 2 and good intentions.


• Web.py - a web framework for python that is as simple as it is powerful.


• Google’s AppEngine Run your Python web apps on Google’s infrastructure.


• Pypy - implemenation of the Python language focusing on speed, memory usage, and sandboxing.


• Rubinius - an implementation of the Ruby programming language. The Rubinius bytecode virtual machine is written in C++.


• Manoria - an MMO city-building and resource management game [Source]


• Server tail - a service which lets you quickly and easily see real time output of log files on your servers, with just a web browser. [Source]


• Read the docs - a place to create, host, and browse docs. [Source]


• GitHub made covering the event live much more fun


• PhoneGap - open source development framework for building cross-platform mobile apps using HTML and JavaScript.


• Leah Culver, who created Leafy Chat in last year’s Dash, talked about it in Episode 0.1.5

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