This choice will probably slow the growth of our service down and might even cause some of our members to leave unhappy.  However, it will also make PicturePush a more healthy undertaking, making it future proof in terms of growth and self support.  In the long run we will be able to offer a service of much higher quality to those members that really value our offe

It is clear from the start that Python really forces you to take one approach. That seems inflexible at first, but ultimately it gives you less to make a decision about and improves consistency of the code.

I do think there is a lack of documentation at some point. The core language and most important modules have excelent documentation, but that is not true for everything, so sometimes I really felt the need to look at the source.  Which fortunately is very very easy to read.

What really helps me to learn Python as fast as I can is the commandline interpreter, which allows me to simply check what works and how data looks. Furthermore, the PyDev environment is a really great help, with immediate feedback about syntax errors.

If you did not give Python a try yet, please do, even if it looks a bit weird at first, it is really nice to work with.

I have just finished this second project. You can see intermediate steps at my PicturePush album.

I’m not sure yet, whether I’m completely happy with the result, so I might change it a bit later or just leave it as an experiment.

Because my button was named “submit”    myform.submit refers to the button instead of the function.

Today I encountered a similar but harder problem.    Imagine this form:

<form id=”f1″ action=”go.php” onsubmit=”return ajaxSubmit(this);”><input type=”hidden” name=”action” value=”something” /> ….</form>

So I use  document.getElementById(”f1″).getAttribute(”action”);   to get the action and submit using AJAX.   Which works perfectly well in Firefox… and not in IE…

Apparently  IE does not really get you the action attribute but simply  object.action…. which in turn is the input element instead of the action attribute, similar to the first problem.  Unfortunately I can’t come up with a way to fix the script, so I had to replace the HTML all over the place.  (removing the action named input element by defining the action as action=”do.php?action=something”).

The first attempt was using a paper and pen:

I did not get the right atmosphere, we are not a fat and lonely scientist. We are young, experimental and moving. A second attempt followed:

That’s better… but we can’t put a ballpoint sketch on our website, can we? So I took a photo to digitize it and used it as a background in Adobe Illustrator. A few hours later it ended up like this:

Which is what you currently see on the website. Although I definitely should practice some more, overall I do think it came out nice and serves it’s purpose.