Announcements

• Rick is looking for beta testers for his MongoDB+Python training
• Tom’s Folly is closing, so the code jam sessions need a new home

Web2Py - Cliff Kachinske

• It was easy for him to get productive coming from a PHP background.
• Out of the box protection against OWASP’s top 10 vulnerability list.
• Lots of resources.
• Since I’m already involved in Django and Flask, I’m not seeing anything that blows me out of the water for web2py.
• Basically, he says the magic (all the extra stuff it auto-imports) is OK by him, so he’s utterly unconcerned by the major criticism of web2py.
• They have good taste in defaults, at least for the DB: sqlite
• DB definition stuff appears to be a series of function calls, rather than class definitions or some DSL.
• I like his way of phrasing MVP: first payment milestone.

MVC Concepts - Jay Kelkar

• Basic overview of the concepts: not much new.
• I like his take on the definition of MVC: If you have 3 people in the room, you have 4 definitions.

Django vs. web2py (an MVC perspective)

• web2py tries to use the MVC terminology
• Django doesn’t even claim to be MVC (though it is often categorised as one); it claims to be MVT.

virtualenvwrapper - Doug Hellman

• Quick overview of virtualenv
• virtualenvwrapper enforces consistency
• I <3 Doug.
• I need some of this “temporary environment” action

Back to flipping out…