Category: Web Development

Rich Internet Applications and Frameworks

July 26, 2010

Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) are web applications that although they behave like common desktop applications, they are usually hosted on cloud servers and delivered through the Internet. Thanks to Ajax, a method that web applications use to make server requests using JavaScript without having to reload the web page, they behave in a very...

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Rapid Development with Python, Django, and Google App Engine

June 20, 2008

The presentation below by Guido van Rossum (Google), shows how to create great web applications quickly on Google App Engine using the Django web framework and the Python language. Google App Engine is a solution to host complete, scalable web applications written in Python with minimal fuss. The presentation also shows how to use...

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