- Introduction
- Web applications have become an incredibly important area in computing. Almost every aspect of life can be managed through a web app now - banking, ticket booking, even reporting crimes. A great variety of technologies have appeared around this space, from browser plugins for flashy graphics up to hardware appliances for web server acceleration. A set of technologies I am particularly interested in is web frameworks. These are development environments that make it faster and easier to build quality web apps. more...
- SQLAlchemy
- I presented a talk on SQLAlchemy at PyConUK 2007. The slides are here; an audio recording is also available. more...
- ToscaWidgets 2
- ToscaWidgets is a framework for building reusable web components. The system allows a web developer to use a complex widget in their application with ease - the internal complexity of the widget is hidden. This helps rapidly develop compelling web applications. ToscaWidgets 2 is an experimental rewrite from scratch of the framework, that I have developed. more...
Open Source Involvement
I've been active on several Python projects:
- ToscaWidgets
- A library for creating re-usable web widgets, and a selection of useful widgets.
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- Numerous bug fixes and minor enhancements
- Greatly improved documentation
- Created tw.dynforms, a widget library for dynamic websites
- Started the ToscaWidgets-experimental branch, leading to Toscawidgets 2.
- SQLAlchemy
- This is an object-relational mapper. more...
- Progressed MS SQL Server support from basically working to fully supported.
- Developed basic MS Access support.
- Initiated some tools: autocode and dbcopy.
- TurboGears
- This is a web framework based on a number of existing components. more...
- Improved SQLAlchemy support, including changes for SA0.4.
- Various bug fixes, including avoiding the need for ET() calls using TG Widgets in Genshi templates.
- Developed iisproxy, a tool to deploy TurboGears applications with Microsoft IIS.
