Will Python and Django become the next hot languages for web developers? With Google’s recent App Engine announcement the spotlight is certainly shinning bright on this scripting language and web application framework. The Atomeo blog hast a great post to get you ready for Google Apps Engine by Learning Python and Django.
Rails vs Django is a nice evaluation of the two most popular web application frameworks. Rails uses the Ruby scripting language while Django uses the Python scripting language. Both are very capable and offer a unique set of features. This evaluation shows you how long it took to write the application and compares the lines of code along with some syntactical differences.
If you’re looking to give the Django Python web framework a try, here is a nice 30 minute screencast that will show you how to Build a To-do List.
Seems like web frameworks are all the rage these past few months. Symfony is yet another open-source PHP framework that might be worth checking out. It supports features like:
One thing I find interesting though, is that on the Ruby platform there is one framework (Rails) and if Python is your scripting language of choice, there is Django. On the PHP side however, there are at least 4 that I have come across. It would be nice if one PHP framework would lead in this space, to make the choice much more clear and focus the efforts of the open-source contributors to creating one great project.
Qcodo is a new open-source PHP 5 framework that focuses on freeing developers from unnecessary tedious, mundane coding. The group offers two screencasts that combined last 45 minutes and will give you a pretty good idea about what this framework offers developers:
