Ok, so this post has nothing to do with any gathering of any developers, it’s just the name of a song by “Teebee”:http://www.beatservice.no/teebee_k.html and I’m listening to a really good drum and bass “radio show”:http://www.subvertcentral.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=22223 right now.

I am trying to get some development on the go though but I’ve run into issues installing the “python IDE”:http://homepages.cwi.nl/~jack/macpython/ on my machine. There seems to be some sort of bug with the installer and I dont know my way around OS X well enough to sort it out, so it’s all really frustrating.

I saw a really good OS X book at Borders the other day but it was for Panther so I left it on the shelf. I also didn’t make a note of the name, which I’m regretting now. All the books I’ve come across so far are aimed at your beginners and I’m looking for something that delves into the technical side. I’ll have to go back and see if I can find it again. (Suggestions and recomendations are welcome too.)

So while I plug away at OS X I’ve also been thinking about what will be the best approach to some of the ideas I mentioned earlier. I dont have any sort of development background or experience at all so this means I have to start from scratch. So I’ve settled on “Python”:www.python.org as my programming language. I’ve been using it for a few months now and it’s really easy to learn and really powerful so I’m happy with that choice.

Next choice will be which web application framework to go for. So far there’s “AJAX”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX but that looks way to demanding for someone just starting out. Then there’s “Ruby on Rails”:www.rubyonrails.org. That would mean learning a new language but RoR has built to speed up and simplify the development of web application, which is exactly what I’m after. Ideally, I’d like to find a Python based framework and there are a number to choose from. The “pyWebOff”:http://pyre.third-bit.com/pyweb/index.html looks like the best place to start there.

So we’ll see how the search goes. Right now I’ve got to get past getting python running on my machine…