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I just gave a short talk on Retro at Montréal Python 7 and was happy to hear that the presentation was clear and showed the interest of using Retro to quickly implement data-oriented Web Services.

While we're hearing a lot of buzz on the "Web 3.0" and all the linked-data thing, I think we still need to have more simple RESTful exposition of data, so here's something to help:

This presentation should help you get started with Retro, and you can also grab the code from Github or clone the repository to get started:

git clone git://github.com/sebastien/retro.git

There is much more to discover about Retro, so I'll let you have a look and play with it !

As you may know, one of my "new year resolutions" is to do more presentations of the different open-source projects I've been working on. I'll be presenting "Retro" (used to be called Railways, but I switched because the name was so 2000 at Montréal Python 7 this Wednesday at La Banque.

Retro is a lightweight declarative web toolkit that I've been using for many web-projects, and that I think is worth sharing ! I'll do a flash presentation (~5min) presenting how it can be used to quickly create web services and why it puts you in a good mindset to design web APIs.

Presenting technologies is always an interesting challenge, especially when there are many similar projects (in this case, there are dozens of web frameworks/toolkits/libs) -- I'll do my best to communicate clearly what are the design decisions that motivated Retro's creation and why it can be better fit for specific applications.

You can check out retro on my GitHub page