Giving this cat a little walk
I've just watched TurboTunes screencast ... CatWalk seems to be a good piece of code which puts SQLObject in all its userfriendly point-an-click glory ! It made me think about Django's CRUD admin sites in some aspects, though Django seems a bit simpler in that particular field, in terms of ergonomy..
But one thing hitched my tiny little hair up while watching the screencast, i was quite surprised to see Kevin code so much javascript, particularly some code (like retrieveGenres() or retrieveAlbumsForArtist) which to me would be much more readable in Python in a real .py file. Ok this is a buzzy Ajax app sitting in a single template, but if it's the kind of apps we'll develop in the so called Web2.0, please spare me. Though i need to play with it anyway ;)
#. Kevin Dangoor on Sat Nov 12 21:11:03 2005
Actually, I can't claim the credit for writing that. Ronald Jaramillo wrote the tutorial. I just did the narration.If you want to dynamically update things on your pages, you basically have to use JavaScript. Luckily, MochiKit makes working with JavaScript a little more Pythonic (without breaking what JavaScript is all about). I didn't think the JavaScript in that tutorial seemed particularly hairy at all, though. Maybe I'm just acclimating :)