Credits

We strongly believe in giving credit where credit is due. Whirlwind is a by-product of a lot of hard work from a ton of extremely talented developers working on some groundbreaking technologies.

Underlying technologies

• Tornado Web Server (http://www.tornadoweb.org)

"Tornado is an open source version of the scalable, non-blocking web server and tools that power FriendFeed."

• MongoDB (http://www.mongodb.org)

"MongoDB (from "humongous") is a scalable, high-performance, open source, document-oriented database."

• Mako Templates (http://www.makotemplates.org)

"Mako is a template library written in Python. It provides a familiar, non-XML syntax which compiles into Python modules for maximum performance."

• jQuery (http://jquery.com/)

"jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript."

• MongoKit (https://github.com/namlook/mongokit)

"MongoKit framework try to keep its simplicity when you manage mongodb in python. MongoKit was developed to be fast and light with KISS and DRY in mind. MongoKit brings structured schema and validation layer on top of the great pymongo driver."

Project contributers

The Whirlwind project is being lovingly tended by the tech teams of Trendrr and Wiredset. The two main developers to date are Dustin Norlander and Matt Dennebaum.

Many thanks to Mark Ghuneim, Tom Donohue and the rest of the Wiredset/Trendrr team for realizing the importance of open source and encouraging us to share our work with the open source community that has made what we do possible.

Other Credits

Many thx to alabid for all his help with putting together more docs for the framework. Huge Kudos Daniel!

Many thx to Nod for his work on the route decorator which comes from the Tornskel Project

Many thx to Jehiah for his solution to the ever frustrating issue of dealing with tornado errors.

Also we would like to give a big up to a few points of inspiration

• Django (middleware concept, module install, app generation, overall kickass framework)
• Rails (app layout and organization)