Elf Sternberg
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Archive for May, 2008
30May
DWIM HTML Templating in Python
Posted by Elf Sternberg as programming, python, web development
I’ve never been happy with templating languages. Oh, sure, I use them. WordPress (what this blog is written in) is written in PHP, and I’ve used eruby and erb for other websites. I understand what they’re trying to accomplish, but if the objective is to write an application that happens to use HTML as its […]
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- Tags: html, python, templates, webware
Webware certainly isn’t the best and hottest and most wonderful of all application servers out there. There’s Paste, for one thing, which has a Webware emulation layer in case you ever want to move your Webware application to the latest and greatest. I’m going to use Webware because it works and because, as Bruce Eckels […]
06May
Step 1: Install Webware
Posted by Elf Sternberg as programming, python, web development, webware
For most of what I will do and show, I’m going to be using Webware For Python. I like Webware because it’s simple, and is more or less the perfect vehicle for showing various aspects of web application development. So, for this first post, I’m going to go through a usual installation of Webware. My […]
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