For a change, I've been doing all of my new app development using flask, a python web framework built atop the werkzeug WSGI toolkit. Having used django for the last two years it's been fun to do something different, but at the same time stick with python.

In this post I'd like to show a couple of the small projects I've written using flask over the past few weeks.

Recently I stumbled across the twitter bootstrap project, which is a set of cross-browser compliant stylesheets and scripts. I liked them so much that I've ported the admin templates to use bootstrap. Here's a little screenshot of the design refresh taken from the example app:

http://media.charlesleifer.com/images/photos/flask-peewee-admin.jpg

I hope this will make the admin easier to work with in the long-run!

I'd like to write a post about a project I've been working on for the past month or so. I've had a great time working on it and am excited to start putting it to use. The project is called flask-peewee -- it is a set of utilities that bridges the python microframework flask and the lightweight ORM peewee. It is packaged as a flask extension and comes with the following batteries included:

• Admin interface a-la django
• RESTful API toolkit a-la tastypie
• Authentication system

In this post I'll show how I used Hookbox, a comet server/message queue, and Flask, a lightweight python web framework, to create a simple real-time chat app. This post will walk through creating a bare-bones example, then discuss ways to add additional functionality.