Simon Willison’s Weblog

Human pylons carry electricity across Iceland. An entry in the “Icelandic High-Voltage Electrical Pylon International Design Competition” proposes giant human-shaped electricity pylons. “The figures can be placed into different poses, with the suggestion that the landscapes could inform the position that the sculpture is placed into. For example, as a power line ascends a hill, the pylons could look as if they’re climbing. The figures could also stretch up to gain increased height over longer spans.”

# 17th August 2010, 1:38 pm / design, pylons, recovered

New PylonsHQ Site Launches. The new site uses CouchDB instead of a relational database, and the code for the site is open source so you can see how it all works.

# 22nd January 2009, 6:33 pm / couchdb, pylons, python, ben-bangert, nonrelational

Misapplying book terms, Pylons, and the ’end-user’. Ben Bangert responds to Adam Gomaa’s claim that Pylons lacks “conceptual integrity”.

# 19th December 2007, 11:09 am / adam-gomaa, ben-bangert, pylons, python

Oxford Geek Night 4. Tomorrow night, usual venue. Topics include mySociety, Pylons, MythTV and more.

# 27th November 2007, 9:04 pm / oxford-geek-nights, pylons, mysociety, python, events, mythtv

Using django.newforms with Pylons. It’s always good to see Django components used outside of the framework itself. For the record, you can avoid the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE environment variable entirely using django.conf.settings.configure (search for it).

# 27th November 2007, 3:01 pm / django, newforms, pylons, python, settings

TurboGears and Pylons (a technical comparison). Ian Bicking explores the differences between the two, and finds that the most significant is probably CherryPy v.s. Paste.

# 7th February 2007, 1:51 pm / turbogears, pylons, python, cherrypy, paste