Additional information on the tools and resources used in the book can be found online.
- http://www.cherrypy.org/
The pure Python application server used in the examples in this book.
- http://projects.apache.org/projects/http_server.html
Apache is much more than just a web server, but this links to this webserver workhorse directly.
- http://jquery.com/
All about the JavaScript libraries used throughout this book to spice up the user interface.
- http://www.prototypejs.org/
http://www.sencha.com/products/extjs/
Possible alternatives to the jQuery/jQuery UI libraries. Each has its own strengths and weaknesses.
- http://sqlite.org/
http://wiki.python.org/moin/DatabaseInterfaces
The home of the embedded database engine bundled with Python and a list of alternative database engines that work with Python.
- http://www.aminus.net/dejavu
Some quality object relational mappers.
- http://subversion.apache.org/
Both good! Widely used version management tools.
- http://code.google.com/apis/libraries/devguide.html
http://www.asp.net/ajaxlibrary/cdn.ashx
Content delivery frameworks may reduce the load on your own web server significantly.
- http://pypi.python.org/pypi
The Python package index. Lists thousands of packages ready for use with Python. Check this first before reinventing the wheel.
- http://www.datatables.net/
http://www.appelsiini.net/projects/jeditable
Two very capable jQuery plugins. Both are excellent examples of how to extend jQuery.
- http://getfirebug.com/
An extension for the Firefox browser. Invaluable when debugging web applications.
- http://seleniumhq.org
A tool to test user interfaces/web pages.
- http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Main_Page
Securing your application is very important. On this site, you will find information about general principles as well as specific attack patterns (and their remedies).
- http://planet.python.org/
A large collection of blogs about Python.
- http://michelanders.blogspot.com/
The author's blog about writing web applications in Python.