James's rants and revelations http://www.crasta.com/ en Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.crasta.com/blog/2009-12-03/framework_design_balancing_act tag,crasta.com,2009-12-03:framework_design_balancing_act Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500 contact@jamescrasta.com (James Crasta) In the Python web development world, we have become very familiar with the word 'framework.' Most of us are using at least one, and some of us are guilty of writing our own, as well. Recently I was involved in an IRC discussion on the merits of the various web frameworks, and naturally this is about as vicious a conversation as discussing text editors of choice. A topic which came up during that discussion was the ability to start writing your code with a minimum of writing configs or other ...