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"The web2.0 era has put the web application frameworks at the center of the free software community attention. Various opinions (1,2) and performance (1,2) comparisons have been published by free software enthusiasts trying to rank the quality and the potential of different web frameworks.

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"Git has sometimes been described as a versioning file-system which happens to support the underlying notions of version control. And while most people do simply use Git as a version control system, it remains true that it can be used for other tasks as well.

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Now you can truly see why our commenters dubbed Python the programming language that "can do anything." One intrepid (and hungry) hacker, possibly named Nick Jensen, put together a small script that...

The third alpha release of Python 2.6 and the fifth alpha release of Python 3.0 are now available.

PyCon FR, the French national Python conference, takes place at the Cite des sciences et de la Villette on May 17 and 18

SQLObject 0.10.1 was Released 4 May 2008.

Fixed a bug: limit doesn’t work in sqlbuilder.Select.
A number of changes ported from SQLObject 0.9.6.

PyOhio, a regional Python miniconference, will be held July 26, 2008 in Columbus, OH. Talk proposals are due by June 1.

PyOhio, a regional Python miniconference, will be held July 26, 2008 in Columbus, OH. Talk proposals are due by June 1.

Python takes the Favorite Scripting Language award, the magazine announced today.

Python takes the Favorite Scripting Language award, the magazine announced today.

The SciPy 2008 Conference will be held at Caltech again this year during the week of August 19-24, 2008. More information will be posted as the schedule matures.

A weekend of Python sprinting around the world is planned for May 10-11 to tackle issues from the Python bug tracker. See the Python wiki for more information, and join us online or at your local user group!

The Workshop on Self-sustaining Systems (S3) 2008 will be held in Potsdam, Germany on May 14-16, 2008. The program and registration information are now available online.

The website djangogigs.com is an excellent place for a company to find Django developers or for developers to find work as a (freelance) Django developer.

Two small things are missing though. One is a search function, pretty basic functionality that should be there and the other is that all gigs or developers are listed by country and the most important country, remote, is missing. You can tag a Django gig as ‘Remote Gig’ but there is no way to search for remote gigs.

The EuroSciPy 2008 Conference will be held in Leipzig, Germany on July 26-27, 2008. The Call for Participation is up, and registration is open.