Keeping things simple (and independent) is very important in my opinion. But since it is often faster (at the beginning), and especially needs much less thinking and experience to make things unnecessarily complex, that's unfortunately what most people do...
So, the purpose of this site is to show some "simple alternatives"—or at least some "things", where I tried hard to (a) keep them simple and (b) split them into independent parts.
programming
- RPC (Remote Procedure Call)
- thoughts about remote procedure calls and a very simple but powerful RPC-system, incl. an implementation for Python.
- JSON-RPC - A summary of all relevant information about JSON-RPC.
- Template-Engines
- thoughts about template-engines - incl. comparisons and benchmarks
- pyratemp - a small, simple and pythonic template-engine for Python
- pyra-framework - an extremely lightweight python-web-application-framework
- embdoc - use reST to completely document your sourcecode in comments/docstrings, and automatically generate HTML-pages as documentation.
- static wiki - a small, simple wiki, which creates static webpages
- pic2html - a gallery-generator using pyratemp
- ...
links
- netstrings: A very simple and lightweight self-delimiting encoding for data, e.g. for sending the data over a network. It essentially says that the data should be encoded as: <LEN>:<DATA>,
- JSON: A simple and lightweight, human-readable data format. For data serialization or interchange, it's much simpler and causes much less hassle than XML. So, if you don't really need the advanced features of XML, better use JSON.
- Revision Control System (RCS): Although RCS is quite old, it's still very useful -- especially for version-controlling single files and when merging is not a major problem. It's very small and simple, has a human-readable (and human-editable!) fileformat, and exactly does what it should without getting into your way.
- Simple Common Gateway Interface (SCGI): An excellent replacement for CGI, which is simpler, easier to understand, and needs much less code than the popular (and way too complicated) FastCGI.
- rest2web: A website builder. Although it's not quite as simple and flexible as I would like it to be, it's a good tool to create webpages (like this one). And together with e.g. RCS it can be a nice simple CMS-replacement.
- The Zen of Python
- Wikipedias sites about the KISS principle, simple living and simplicity
