Bottle Tutorials

Finally finished the Bottle tutorial:

http://bottlepy.org/docs/dev/tutorial.html

Involved more reading than I thought, so I want to work on a more hands on tutorial next.  This looks good:

http://bottlepy.org/docs/dev/tutorial_app.html

The app you end up building is the ever popular to do list.

Learning Ember

Finally got around to finishing this tutorial: http://emberjs.com/guides/getting-started/

Of course, now I need to brush up on my Angular.

Django project to work on?

I'm getting to the point where I am trying to think of a Django project to work on.  Any hints?  My only requirement is that it should not be a to do list!

Differences Between Rails And Django

As I launch into the world of Python/Django, I am going to be comparing and contrasting it to Ruby/Rails.  One significant difference is that in Rails you work on just one app.  When you work on Django, you create a project that contains multiple apps, and in fact, if you are smart, you can then reuse apps in different projects.  Of course, with great power comes great responsibility.  You will need to wire up the apps in the project.

Django puts what I consider controllers in an app's views.py file.  What I consider views are put in a template folder.  Both frameworks have template engines.  Rails uses embedded Ruby.  Django has a template engine that looks like embedded Python.  

From what I can see, Django does not have any scaffolding.  Strangely enough, I do not miss it.  I guess the frameworks reflect the philosophy of each language.  Ruby has multiple ways to do tasks and has many shortcuts.  In Python, you can only do a task one way, and that language seems to value clarity over shortcuts.  I have heard that packages might exist that allows scaffolding, but I would have to do some research.

I am sure I will be able to find more differences and similarities as I travel further down this path.

Tango With Django

Going to check out this online Django book:

http://www.tangowithdjango.com/

CoffeKlatsch is finished!

Finished my first ember.js project.  Feel free to checkout my Github repo:

https://github.com/cspears2002/coffeeklatsch

Here is a screen grab of the SPA to show off the styling:

The styling was done using Twitter Bootstrap.  I might consider hosting this on AWS, but right now, I feel like relaxing.

CoffeeKlatsch has CRUD!

I implemented CRUD in CoffeeKlatsch!  Check out the code at:

https://github.com/cspears2002/coffeeklatsch

Now for some styling!

CoffeeKlatsch

Wow.  Ember.js has a REALLY steep learning curve.  Here is what I have accomplished so far:

https://github.com/cspears2002/coffeeklatsch

One problem I have been having has been getting my Ember.js apps to work on JSFiddle, which has been a tremendous pain.  Finally got this up and running:

http://jsfiddle.net/cspears2002/y8MT3/

Right now users can display and add coffee prices.  I am still on working on adding the ability to edit and delete.