Some time ago, I wrote a small piece about TurboGears, with a link to a review I read on O'Reilly.

Since then I've studied and played with it a lot, and I can only say it's changed my worldview quite a bit. As those who know me, know, I've tinkered with programming for the web since autumn 2002, where I started with some rather immature PHP-hacking. Since then, I've learned a lot. Studied “real” programming languages, like C, C++, C# etc., and I've gotten a lot better at PHP. However, at some point after converting to linux in 2004, I learned about Python, and that's changed my outlook on programming a lot.

So, it would seem that we're really getting open standards in Denmark. A majority for a new law is forming in our parliament, Folketinget. If it passes, all public authorities are required to start introducing open standards for communication by 2008. You can read more (in danish) here.

I'd think that big Bill won't be pleased. I most certainly don't pray and hope that Microsoft won't get their new document standard ratified by ISO. If so, this might all be for naught. But let's see. Europe's goventments hasn't (yet) shown the same subservience towards Microsoft as many others, and most probably, ISO will not be inclined to accept yet another XML-based document format. After all, one should be enough .