Bill has an update to his last round of checking out Web frameworks, now cutting it down down to 4. The 4 are: Plone, Struts, Django, and Ruby on Rails.

This is very informative and has practical implications. I don’t know anything about Plone other than it uses Zope, which is enough to put it out of my radar screen. Struts is Java, which is just a silly language to use for most Web work. Ruby on Rails is very interesting, and I’ve messed around with it just very slightly, but I got turned off by all the magic keywords. I have almost no functional short or long term memory, which means I have no chance of remembering all the magic words, which is enough to intimidate me into putting Rails on the back burner.

Which leaves us with Django. Haven’t tried it, but it smells about right: Python based and in the mold of Rails. I’m mostly messing with CherryPy these days, which I like, but I’m not so married to it I can’t try something else. Probably will try Django on the next project and report on how it goes.