Leonardo on home intranet

Now that I have used Leonardo on a live website I suddenly realised that it would be a good basis for at least part of our home intranet.

At home we have a Sun V20z with Sun Ray ultra thin clients. That is what everyone uses for their day to day stuff. I also have a laptop currently running Windows XP which is handy for those things I don't have on Linux and for taking to church services etc. The laptop connects wirelessly and so it is not allowed access to the Sun server.

So a simple Leonardo running on the Sun server with one DMZ pinhole on the firewall and I have simple file sharing and the ability to read or update my notes from anywhere.

OK I am sure there are plenty of other tools out there that can do this. But I happen to like Leonardo's simplicity and want a python solution as that is definately my preferred language at present.

Longer term I hope to be able to put Leonardo into a WSGI server and add other applications written to the WSGI standard (Quixote, CherryPy and Django being the tools I am most likely to select from).

We are just talking about the best way to add file browsing within Leonardo so I expect that to be a standard feature pretty soon. Note that for security, richness and flexibility this is a browser of the Leonado File System (LFS) that sits on top of the OS filesystem so we are not opening a big risk here.

Comments

[DA]

"Longer term I hope to be able to put Leonardo into a WSGI server and add other applications written to the WSGI standard (Quixote, CherryPy and Django being the tools I am most likely to select from)."

Oops. What wrong with myghty? Any news? Is it dying?

[DaveW]

Nothing wrong with Myghty, it is just I prefer approaches where the template is relatively dumb and does not contain coding logic, ie I don't want to see python code inside html (nor for that matter the other way round).