Pylons Category

The Presentation
Without presentation a web page is just text. In the early days of building web sites styles and colors were mixed with JavaScript and large animated gifs. Yes, during those days they were referred to as “web sites,” no one called them “web apps” yet. And to be frank, with all [...]

Zero to 60 with Pylons… in just minutes (Part 2)

In: Code, Pylons, Python

This is multi-part series on how to getting running with Pylons, a MVC framework for Python. In Part 1 I discussed how to set up your project, modify the configuration environment and base files. Here I will show you how to set up your model to use SQLAlchemy 0.4.4 and tie it together [...]

What’s Pylons?
I’ll assume you’ve heard the buzz about Ruby on Rails. Pylons, like Rails, is an MVC framework, but written in the Python language.
This isn’t meant to be an intro to MVC frameworks, but for those just getting started… MVC frameworks let you keep the presentation, business logic, and data separate. They also [...]

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Code. Design. Explore. is the blog of John Brennan, a web developer/designer, entrepreneur, and avid world traveler. I currently live in Brooklyn, NY.

I am the Co-Founder of OpenAction and lead Product Development. We are a open platform social enterprise that helps organizations engage with donors, share knowledge with other non profits and empower the community to get involved to create positive impact on our planet.

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