The Telegraphic » webdev http://blog.thetelegraphic.com Online home of Danny Price, University of Oxford Tue, 23 Aug 2011 22:37:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Bottle: Quick Python Web Apps http://blog.thetelegraphic.com/2011/bottle-quick-python-apps/ http://blog.thetelegraphic.com/2011/bottle-quick-python-apps/#comments Mon, 21 Mar 2011 22:48:55 +0000 dan http://blog.thetelegraphic.com/?p=222 Typing in “bottle python awesome” into Google doesn’t produce anywhere near as many results as it should. Bottle is an amazingly easy to use, lightweight framework with a very simple template engine, and all the goodies that you’ll want for form handling, cookies and that sort of thing.

It’s not a fully fledged Model-View-Controller (MVC) or Object-Relational (ORM) type framework like Django, Web2Py or Pylons, so it’s not the best choice for large database driven sites; but for small-medium size sites it’s amazing and has pretty much no learning curve. I combined it with blueprint.css and had a reasonable app hacked up and running within an hour of installing (which is super easy – it’s just one 72kB file).

]]> http://blog.thetelegraphic.com/2011/bottle-quick-python-apps/feed/ 0 The Devil’s Handshake http://blog.thetelegraphic.com/2009/the-devils-handshake/ http://blog.thetelegraphic.com/2009/the-devils-handshake/#comments Fri, 02 Jan 2009 15:30:25 +0000 dan http://blog.thetelegraphic.com/?p=105 This year’s 24 ways was a blast, and one of the articles that stood out for me was Andy Clarke’s tutorial on writing a Killer Contract. I think it’ll be saving quite a few developers out there from getting burnt. For my own dark desires, I’ve created a Microsoft Word template, complete with a macro to autocomplete it. I offer it here, free to use and redistribute as Andy did. I offer it as-is, make sure you look at it carefully before allowing the macro to execute, of course.

Using this, it only takes a few seconds to make a custom contract between you and a client. It should also only take a few minutes to customise it to your own styles and formatting.  If you’re even crapper at Word than me, then you might want to read up about user forms, bookmarks and form fields. The word MVP site is a killer resource for all that jazz. A quick MS Word tip: use ALT+F9 to toggle field view, and turn bookmarks viewing on in tools > options > views. Finally: IANAL, so YMMV. Good luck and enjoy!

Download contract template (zipped)

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