A recent job that came in was for a site that’s a pretty traditional database-driven web application. The record structure is very complex, but there’s very little else on the site.
Generally I use Zope and Plone for web applications, but they really aren’t suited to something like this. There’s no need for any portal or content management facilities and the data is updated en mass by a batch job. The data is unsuited to an RDBMS, and I dislike RDBMSes anyway.
So, some other web platform seemed sensible. Since I’ve used it before I chose Twisted and the templating system they recommend Nevow.
Documentation is scarce, and the most valuable thing, examples of patterns of usage, are largely absent. This is making some of the more complex things much more difficult, so if I have some success I’ll document them…
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