I’m sitting next to the creator of python and listening to the History of Django talk.  It’s very interesting to see how the Django framework morphed into what we know it today.

Jacob Kaplan-Moss and Guido Van Rossum just had an interesting side discussion about how Django should do things, making it easier to run on Google App Engine.  After seeing Guido’s talk, the latest backend changes to allow a non rdbms database and the side conversation, I think there will be many exciting developments in Google App Engine in the next year.

I have a friend that’s a Python hacker and he’s been keeping the friendly rivalry between Ruby and Python alive between us. A while back, he gave in and worked in Rails for a couple of weeks to give it a try.

For the last two weeks, I have returned the courtesy and have been working with Django and Google App Engine. I love Django! It rocks! Auto documentation (better than rdoc), Auto Admin Interface, Modular Apps, what’s not to love?

I don’t think I’ll readily give up Ruby just yet for scripting work, but I’m definately pushing Rails to a back burner for a while. I’m building a production site for a friend in Japan using Django right now, so when I’m done I’ll post a more thorough review.

So far I’ve given out 11 invites and I still have 992.