Launchpad and Storm
July 11th, 2007 | PHP, Web by thCanonical Inc, the company behind Ubuntu Linux and Launchpad announced they will finally open source Launchpad. Launchpad is a project management site, like Sourceforge for example. The first component to be open sourced is object relation mapping tool named Storm. Written in python that simplifies development of database-backed applications in Python. Storm has caused quite a bit buzz and hype in Python circles, and no doubt it’s a fantastic tool.
I noticed that Python-trolls attacked OSNews post about Storm already, bashing PHP for not having anything like Storm. Just to point out, PHP has ORM library too, named PHPDoctrine. PHPDoctrine is also Google’s Summer of Code project.
Note that it will probably take at least another two years before LaunchPad is fully open-sourced. But it’s nice to see this first step taken
Anyway… What exactly do PHPDoctrine and Storm do?
I guess the Wikipedia articles is a good summary:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-relational_mapping
If you know PHP, checking out PHPDoctrine manual is a good place to start
Oh OK, reading that I think it’s not (yet) really interesting for me