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WebOb. WebOb is “an extraction and refinement of pieces from Paste”—provides a very nice request and response object, clearly inspired partly by Django. The documentation includes the differences between the WebOb API and that of other frameworks.

# 23rd December 2007, 10:22 am / django, frameworks, ian-bicking, paste, python, webob

Frameworks Exist for Conceptual Integrity. Adam Gomaa just taught me a bunch of interesting things about Django’s underlying philosophy. Looks like I need to re-read the Mythical Man-Month.

# 17th December 2007, 1:58 pm / adam-gomaa, conceptualintegrity, django, frameworks, mythicalmanmonth, python

The promise [of J2EE] was that of infinite scalability based on tooling, which assumes that designing scalable systems is a general case problem. I now firmly believe that this is flawed reasoning. Frameworks don't solve scalability problems, design solves scalability problems.

Ryan Tomayko

# 14th April 2007, 2:35 am / frameworks, j2ee, java, ryan-tomayko, scaling