20070628

They want to be apples so much they stop internet users from the rest of the world to access there site!!!

After some initial problems including the full text content of a page in my feed, the solution popped up on the PmWiki user mailing list ;)

I have been working on my first real web app in Python and I must admit that I struggle to find my footing. I had been following the emergence of the 3 major frameworks for some time now (about 3 years) without really getting into it but thought that Pylons would fit my brain but ... it doens't! web.py would but it is not very windows friendly (yes I am working on a wintel box :P).

That's how I got into CherryPy which is great! Framework or not, it makes it fun and easy to slap together a web app in Python. That's all I need for now! My web stack will probably be:

• CherryPy
• Mako (one of the reason I like Pylons is Myghty)
• SQLAlchemy

I hope I am not betting on the wrong horse with CP3.0 but even if I do, I'd rather have something out quickly than spend too much time figuring out how a framework founding team thinks, and adjust to that.

I watched Simon Willison's talk about Open ID. There are challenges ahead but it seems interesting.

Also very interesting is Scary Monsters: Does Social Software Have Fangs?, a talk by Suw Charman, confirming my intuition that wikis will rock the real entreprise world, and that it is not going to be easy ;) It probably has something to do with Google's purchase of JotSpot.

I wonder if I will ever turn my 3 years experience implementing and using wikis in a very conservative environment into a gig. That's why I registered BizKwi in the first place!

Last but not least, I have been telling people for over a year now that we should have a YCombinator like structure in Europe. For me, seedcamp is the first serious contender!