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When I visited Python's cheese shop today, I stop for a moment at the total number of packages. This raised my curiosity to look at other languages' package repositories.

1. Perl (11643) http://cpan.org/
2. Python (2392) http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi
3. Ruby (1587) http://raa.ruby-lang.org/
4. PHP (442) http://pear.php.net/packages.php


Well, I am not making any conclusion out of this, because there are many other factors required for an analysis.

I was always biased towards many technologies. My favourite programming
language is Python, My favourite GUI toolkit is PyGTK. My favourite editor is
GNU Emacs. And my favourite web framework is Zope 3.

But I think I have to look into django now, because of these posts:
http://www.advogato.org/person/titus/diary.html?start=186
http://tabo.aurealsys.com/archives/2006/08/18/guido-van-rossum-and-django-redux/
http://pyre.third-bit.com/blog/archives/613.html
http://programming.reddit.com/info/dykr/comments
http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2006/aug/07/guidointerview/

BTW, Zope 3.3 is coming: http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope3 . Now I am a Zope 3
developer, want to learn the internals for contributing, only few minor commits
so far. I managed to create this page: http://kpug.zwiki.org/WhatIsNewInZope33

For the last one month I didn't wrote anything here.
I have always wondered how some peoples write long
matters in journal/blog. Is it just like composing
reply to a technical mail. Do they feel the pain
of creativity. I usually read python, gnome and ubuntu
planets. I like new ideas in programming, technology
also I read humor and philosophy. I think most of the
planets didn't restrict topics. Some of them writes
highly technical stuff only, some writes about life
some writes what's happening everywhere else.
Well, it is something like this, a type is declared
"int me1;", "float me2;". Yes some people sometimes
upcast or downcast their values :)
And there are few dynamically typed journals/blogs
and I like those very much, the first example
I can point is Guido's blog
(http://www.artima.com/weblogs/index.jsp?blogger=guido).
So a "Pythonic blog is always dynamically typed" :)
What is your favorite dynamically typed blog/journal?

Yesterday was Vishu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vishu)
So a new year is started for Malayalees.

I think festivals are becoming just few meaningless
activities. Even though these are nice occasion for
get together of families. Even that is too
just ends up in phone calls. This is just an observation
from southern India. Surely this won't be correct
in other parts of the world.

I think Michael Haubenwallner has silently announced
a "Fortnightly Zope Newsletter"
This is available from here:

http://blog.planetzope.org/

This is really content rich and great looking!
Kudos to all those who worked behind this.

May be because I am doing a lot of works these days.
I wanted to involve in some free software projects,
Hope I will be able to start 'Velicham' (A frontend
for GNU Arch) project very soon.

GNU/Linux, GNU Emacs, Python, Debian

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