 What are the best technologies you've worked with this year?
csytan: Google Appengine:
Probably _the_ easiest platform to develop a webapp on if you use Python and are okay with its limitations.Tornado:
If you are going to develop on GAE, Tornado is the way to go.  It is fast, well written, and only includes the core features needed for a web app.I can't highlight how much easier it has made things for me since switching from Django.  Debugging Tornado's source code was a breath of fresh air compared to Django's monkey-patched bird's nest of dependencies.