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Tarek Ziade & Daniel Greenfeld blogged this first. I just stole the idea.

1. What's the coolest Python application, framework, or library you have discovered in 2009?

Well, I can't really say Django, but I really got into it in 2009, learned a lot of cool/new stuff and applied them in different projects.

I met the awesome power of ftplib and smtplib (which is kinda typical python style, it's just that I didn't know about them before). I was also introduced to Pip, Virtualenv and Tarek Zaide's Distribute.

2. What new programming technique did you learn in 2009?

I learned that I hate ASP.Net! I haven't really done anything nifty with it, but some gigs involved it. I'm not saying it's bad of ...

This screenscast will show you how to install Pinax on Windows:

You can download the high quality version here.

Update: Genshi was removed after beta3, so you don't have to worry about that anymore (once rc1 is released).

Update2: In the screencast, I copied the "basic_project" folder  from "site-packages" to the "pinax-env" folder that pinax-boot created, two things wrong here:

• I should've used "pinax-admin clone_project basic_project" command instead of copying the project my self. (there seems to be a problem with the clone_project command in 0.7beta3 on Windows, the fix)
• It's encouraged ...
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