sooo dum dee dum I head over to cherrypy download page and download the latest version which happens to be 3.2.1 as of now.

so like a kid opening his christmas gift I untar the archive and run


python setup.py install
File "setup.py", line 25
'wsgiserver2|ssl_pyopenssl' if python3 else 'wsgiserver3'
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax


I think cherrypy is dead. to pack a failure like this is pretty bad.

I try to download 3.2.0rc2 ... oh empty directory

ok lets try 3.2.0rc1 ... found something.... download

untar

python setup.py install
...

tada! it works...
but frankly this isnt getting cherrypy any points for uploading a broken package 9completely uninstallable) into their repo as so called stable fracking release. @the Devs of Cherrypy, when toasters show up at your doorstep you will remember this.

end of rant T_T

Today I really want to fight.

I love django. But love is like that... fleeting. The stability and reliability of django is undeniable. So anyway why I think of pylons.

Pylons is developing very fast. That may be good or bad. The first Problem I encountered with django recently was lack of common interface to NoSQL. There is work under development but nothing concrete. There is talk of Alchemy but nothing concrete and usable. Pylons on the other hand simply loves to merge with anyone and create off springs. Damn iRobots.

If you visit http://pylonshq.com/ you will see that it does claim support for NoSQL and SQLAlchemy. Catch.com is known to use pylons and MongoDB so there is production stuff..

When using PHP I used to be scared of how to start a project like Advertising Marketplace. Yes its been done like Adbrite.com but looking at OpenX it just doesn't look like something I would wanna do. To me OpenX has fail written all over it.

With django I just want to get started. I know it will be a breeze. Except I hate MySQL or SQL in general when it comes to interwebs. My experience with running the massive GoNZB.com usenet search engine reminds me how painful it was. Which is why Pylons comes into the scene and with Form Alchemy it hard to not think of Pylons.

There is a good starting point for everyone at Pylons just like Django. http://www.pylonscasts.com/ shows screencast. or it must. But sadly right now its always offline.


We shall see if I make somehting in Pylons. Right now I am hard at work with a django based enterprise solution plus my very boring ITILv3 certification which promises a job of 33,000 US$ per annum. Singapore I choose you.... I fail.

There are some good examples, snippets and projects now in development for mobile environments like iPhone and Android. I am not speaking of application development per se, which is limited to platform-only programming. In my one sided opinion, no phone is so great as to ask for its own development environment, language and platform. We based apps is the way to go. This is my compilation of django or python related iphone stuff. Ill post android stuff later.

A nifty iphone push notification system with source code and some documentation
http://leepa.github.com/django-iphone-push/

A mobile admin interface for django (this is great I think my future/existing clients will love this. too bad my company works with Symfony blah blah)
http://code.google.com/p/django-mobileadmin/

comment: the docs are weirdly located at http://api.rst2a.com/1.0/rst2/html?uri=http%3A//django-mobileadmin.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/docs/overview.rst&style=revver-dev someone should download and pdf this before its gone.
Drawback is they use google code hosting (lol?) but realizing their mistake here's teh github mirror
https://github.com/jezdez/django-mobileadmin

How to switch template when iPhone is detected an example
http://djangosnippets.org/snippets/2035/
Some more ideas on templating for iPhone using a mini_render_to_response
http://menendez.com/blog/easily-code-iphone-templates-django/

comments: I would double check if the user agent string is correct and what about iPads? nvm them they are a nuisance.


then there are idiots who just waste time, stealing docs and making it into iphone app. i am telling ya this iphone thing is getting crazier than it should. it might head the iDotComBust way


[and then we found Kyle!...] iPhone Web service with Django
http://justinvoss.wordpress.com/2010/09/03/creating-a-simple-iphone-web-service-in-django/

haven't covered python as it requires filtering through lot of crap and ghost projects which have no code.
EDIT: oh there if ofcourse
http://pyobjc.sourceforge.net/documentation/index.html pyObjectiveC.
This might come in handy for those
who prefer python. If you have used Pyrex then I suppose this should be easy for you to pick up. I have not even started on that stuff yet.

if anyone happens to visit this page out of traggazillions of interwebs you are fated to be here. share what you know before you leave. xD. thanks,