jfrank

I finally got shared folders up and running on my virtual fedora box. This required a little kernel/kernel headers upgrading, and compiling the vmware tools for my box, but it works like a charm. It even gives me cut and paste to the win xp desktop, which is… cool i guess.

I decided to go with python, which has a plethora of tools. Pylons is a piecemeal web framework that is closest to my liking, migrate is a library for schema migration, which works nicely with sqlalchemy, a monster orm.

sqlalchemy is cool because you can use parts of it totally independently. Coming from a CF background I am used to having nice named/pooled connections that I don’t have to think about. The base layer of sqlalchemy is that, a database type abstraction and pooling. Then you are free to go crazy with ORMish things or not, its up to you.

It is so reusable many people have written layers on top of it for even more magical coding… but its nice to have all the options.

Migrate, a RoR knockoff is the real find though, it looks young (as far as a project goes) but I watched a demo of it used in another python framework and it was exactly as I expected, like something we use at work for CF.  It has a schema version table, that holds app state version, and version files with ‘up/down’ methods. My main issue with many of these ’scafolmagic’ things is that no one bothered to mention how you get from one version to the next… or back again. You can’t build the model right the first time, and iterative programming is a fact of life. This library addresses that.

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