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The developers of Django, a Python-based framework for creating and deploying sophisticated Web applications, announced yesterday that they have established the Django Foundation. This foundation, like foundations for Apache and Mozilla, will allow for communal ownership of the Django code, as well as accept donations and pay individuals.

If you're running a Web site, then the last thing you want is to
ﾠ have a broken link.ﾠ Broken links look bad, frustrate users, and
ﾠ confuse search engines.ﾠ Even when links aren't broken, you can have
ﾠ pages that contain bad HTML, or server-side programs that fail when
ﾠ you enter data into them.ﾠ If this is an important issue to you,ﾠ then you should take a look at Tarantula,
ﾠ a Rails plugin that executes a number of simple tasks against your
ﾠ Web site, producing a detailed report (in HTML, of course)
ﾠ describing the URLs that it crawled, and the responses it received
ﾠ from each URL.

Ruby on Rails is one of the hottest open-source technologies around, with many developers calling it the next big thing. And indeed, many new Web sites have been created in Rails -- most notably Twitter. But Rails has long been dogged by accusations that it is too slow and unscalable for enterprise applications, and it didn't help to learn that Twitter might be abandoning Rails, partly or completely, because of these issues. Do Twitter's problems point to an underlying weakness in Rails?