On 4 April 2013 23:54, Whit Morriss <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd love a cookbook along the lines of "Solving Web Development Problems with > Pyramid and friends". Something that would cover all the basic and not so > basic things one encounters when building HTTP focussed applications without > annoying pedantry of stepping through a contrived example application. > Ideally move from simple stuff (single file app!) to the general > (authorization, persistence, forms) to the more complex or fuzzy (REST api > design, realtime etc). Cover the dev and deployment toolchain.
I have not read it, but isn't most of the tool chain covered in Tarek Ziade's book: http://amzn.com/184719494X It's a good idea with a cookbook, but I do feel that in this day and age, a really good website would be worth more than a paper-based cookbook. Think syntax highlighting, crowd-sourced, annotatable, easy to search for. There's Stackoverflow, but it's very Q/A. That doesn't mean that there isn't room for a real book, too. But paper's got strengths and weaknesses. I think paper works best when you can sit and read it and not feel you need to apply any of it straight away. You're just building up an understanding about the subject matter. I thought this morning about how I got into Python, and how I got relatively good at it. And I guess mostly I just tried to figure out how Zope worked and why – a pretty long journey that ultimately wasn't very satisfying – but perhaps more importantly, I met other developers that gave me some unique perspectives on programming. I'm thinking that a good book might help developers tinker with the "right" technology – and provide unique perspectives on the field in general. Like an extended version of Chris' design decision, and more generally applied. \malthe -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
