Sergei Mutovkin’s Rumbling Mumbling

I do not remember advocating here for use of Django before, so “Another” in the subject is my own mental point in the unordered list. This reason is the proper appreciation of web standards by the Django.

What’s more, there is a new book on Django is on the way to the bookstores, and one more is coming very soon. But don’t forget the classics which is also beautifully free.

All this makes me want to create the first functional Django site ASAP…

Today, Trolltech has released Release Candidate 1 of the featurefull Qt 4.4. Downloading it as I write this and I hope to play with its new Help Module, ultra cool feature removing the need to launch external assistant.

Now KDE 4.1 will be even faster and more stable.

Sun was recently very active in making smart choices in selecting open source project to hire developers from or open-source companies to buy (MySQL, Innotek’s VirtualBox) and finally adding the best scripting language to its toolbox - Python. Hiring to prominent Python developers will hopefully make Python a first choice scripting language for different Sun supported products. It seems we will not have to wait for too long to get descent Python support in Sun’s amazing Netbeans IDE and who knows may be one day we can get support for the best web framework - Django.

I think this is one of the greatest news of 2008: Nokia is buying Trolltech! Not only will it let Qt through some previously closed corporate doors, but also will introduce Qt and Qtopia to many more people on many more devices. Finally people will not be afraid that toolkit may belly-up one day.

What’s more I’m hoping that the next Internet Tablet OS will be based around QTopia 4.x which is much more appropriate then XServer + GTK.

Way to go for my favourite C++ GUI Toolkit and amazing Jambi. Now I wish Trolltech will acquire Riverbank Computing and make Python’s PyQt API bindings official and bundled by default. May be I’m dreaming….

Well, not exactly, but the headline is loud, but still more of a wish then reality

Anyway, in the recent IE Blogm Internet Explorer’s Development team finally decided to recognize that Web Standards are “standards” and not something that can be easily ignored, even though Microsoft was successful doing this for 7 years now. They recognized the standards by announcing that that Internet Explorer 8 in its normal mode has passed ACID2 test. Though the test might not really be an indication that all standards are well supported, it is a milestone that has been reached by other browsers quite long ago.

Unfortunately, still, there will be many ignorant web developers that code not for W3C published standards, but for IE6 and IE7 only. My only hope is that all of them one day loose their job and never be accepted into development community again.

Don’t ignore open standards - follow them.

I think some of you know that I really really like Netbeans as a Java IDE, today 1 hour ago the final release of Netbeans 6.0 happened. I think it is quite an amazing release, definitely best ever Netbeans.

Whether you like it depends a lot on whether you want to have out of the box great experience or you like to install 600 different plugins and setup servers and configurations infinitely… it comes with Glassfish 2 application server, Tomcat 6, all latest and greatest Java specs, supports future Java 7, two way UML design, crap like Ruby if you are into fetish stuff (they should have better supported Jython and DJango/TurboGears), C/C++ development (I have not tried it yet, but it is on my to-do list as it is basically what was previously known as Sun C/C++ Studio, so it should be good), and you can easily write programs for your Java MIDP 2.0 phone. Can’t be better, right?

Oh, and the most important, I forgot to mention is the UI designer and new Java Application Framework (JSR 296) for “easy” DB driven Swing application development using latest Java 6 persistence framework. This stuff I’ve tried and LOVE.

Go get it while it is hot. Always free Netbeans 6.0.