Web.py has been one of my favorite web frameworks as its pretty easy to get cracking on it. It’s super quick to install and one can come up with a prototype and rapid web services in matter of minutes. Install on windows If you haven’t configured easy_install on windows, then read this article. Once easy_install has been configured believe it or not, all you have to do is open a command prompt and type

If one has been using python, then installing various libraries and modules is basically a breeze using easy_install utility, however for folks using windows, easy_install utility has to be setup properly before using it. First lets make sure that python is properly installed and PYTHON_HOME environment variable is configured: Install Python on Windows If not already installed download python installer from here. After it’s done downloading, double click to run the installer, and select default options (unless you have other custom needs of course ).

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Few days ago I was experimenting with a nifty technique of embedding images in web pages by base64 encoding them first and then using a standard known as Data URI Scheme, which basically defines a method of assigning a ‘src’ of an image tag as a base64 serialized string, like this: background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABkAAAAUBAMAAACKWYuOAAAAMFBMVEX///92dnZ2dnZ2dnZ2dnZ2dnZ2dnZ2dnZ2dnZ2dnZ2dnZ2dnZ2dnZ2dnZ2dnZ2dnYvD4PNAAAAD3RSTlMAACTkfhvbh3iEewTtxBIFliR3AAAAUklEQVQY02NgIBMwijgKCgrAef5fkHnz/y9E4kn+/4XEE6z/34jEE///A4knev7zAwQv7L8RQk40/7MiggeUQpjJff+zIpINykbIbhFSROIRDQAWUhW2oXLWAQAAAABJRU5ErkJggg=="); Although this technique could save some server round trips, however Microsoft ver. (IE < 8). does not support this scheme even though its a standard, which then makes this technique unfavorable to use as its not cross browser.