Easing Aspen back onto the radar

After a flurry of initial activity with Aspen, I've spent my FOSS cycles over the past week or two working on a skunkworks project. I'm really excited about it, because I expect it to be something I can pitch directly to clients.

However, I want to keep Aspen moving forward too. I hope to release 0.7 before year's end, but in the mean time I've kept the dream alive by suggesting that Guido use Aspen for Mondrian—yeah right!—and that Simon Willison use Aspen to serve Django. This latter is slightly more realistic, as Django doesn't really have a compelling pure-HTTP deployment scenario. There's already a Django wrapper for CherryPy's server module. However, I think there may be value in a WSGI server that is common ground for multiple Python web frameworks. We shall see.

As a side-note, this is the first I've heard of the Nginx webserver. It's a better-maintained, Russian lighttpd: small, fast, and impossible to pronounce. Merry Christmas! Feed back to Chad Whitacre.