Python Programming Language website gets major overhaul
The Python Programming Language -- Official Website has gotten a major overhaul recently!
The site has been rewritten as XHTML. No more 1990s era HTML!
The site now makes heavy use of CSS for styling its content. This offers some nice benefits, which the people who developed the new look for the site took full advantage of. You can browse the site with 3 different looks.
Another improvement: an RSS newsfeed for the website. It is right there ready for the browser to use, if it knows how. As soon as you drop on the home page, you can look at the RSS feed.
A lot of other Python-related actions have occurred recently.
About 6 weeks ago, the Python Software Fooundation announced a new weblog.
About 4 weeks ago, Python 2.4.3 was released - and two days later, it was out as a Mac OS X Universal Binary. (Python 2.4.3 documentation)
Apple's newborn Intel based Macs are quickly receiving a lot of love from the whole developer community. Python is not the only community working hard for the Mac users.
I have a theory about this: a lot of developers have switched to Macs!
It is easy to verify as true. If you look at screencasts, books, and screenshots that promote and explain how to use today's top programming/languages and tools - you are going to see a lot of Macintosh windows in those photos.
That is because that is what the developers are using themselves. Go take a look at this stuff from the Ruby community and check out what Java's James Gosling is using as his computer.
Developers like software that is fresh to use on their systems. That is why the Mac is getting so real all over the place this year.
The site has been rewritten as XHTML. No more 1990s era HTML!
The site now makes heavy use of CSS for styling its content. This offers some nice benefits, which the people who developed the new look for the site took full advantage of. You can browse the site with 3 different looks.
Another improvement: an RSS newsfeed for the website. It is right there ready for the browser to use, if it knows how. As soon as you drop on the home page, you can look at the RSS feed.
A lot of other Python-related actions have occurred recently.
About 6 weeks ago, the Python Software Fooundation announced a new weblog.
About 4 weeks ago, Python 2.4.3 was released - and two days later, it was out as a Mac OS X Universal Binary. (Python 2.4.3 documentation)
Apple's newborn Intel based Macs are quickly receiving a lot of love from the whole developer community. Python is not the only community working hard for the Mac users.
I have a theory about this: a lot of developers have switched to Macs!
It is easy to verify as true. If you look at screencasts, books, and screenshots that promote and explain how to use today's top programming/languages and tools - you are going to see a lot of Macintosh windows in those photos.
That is because that is what the developers are using themselves. Go take a look at this stuff from the Ruby community and check out what Java's James Gosling is using as his computer.
Developers like software that is fresh to use on their systems. That is why the Mac is getting so real all over the place this year.
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