Django Dash, Python, Ruby

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

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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