I have been a big fan of BigTable ever since I learned about it. Ultimately, one of the things I'd to do is build massive MDBMS applications hosted in a parallelized cloud. I think Google is going to allow me to do that. The announcement is out there. Scoble has good links.
Part of the requirements are the use of Python, which I considered a few years back but ditched in favor of Ruby, which was only semi-baked at the time. I eventually lost interest in Ruby and Rails, but I still remember hearing stellar compliments paid to Python, which adherents believed would someday replace Perl. Now in my 7th year of Perl and ksh, I'm ready to switch - and given that Python is now, via BigTable, scalable to a practical infinity, I'm effecting the shift.
Immediately, I can see the practical uses for Python in my ordinary work. I've been meaning to make some basic masterdata tools for the longest time but I've only had VBA stuff inside Excel for my 'Big Button' interfaces. Since Tk is bundled with Python 2.5.2, I'm fairly sure that I should be building some neat little end-user tools in no time. I'm going to make the assumption that I can get them to look as cute as Google Gadgets - and so that's the name of that tune.
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