Those who know me technically know that I'm big into the TurboGears Python web development framework. Despite my affinity for al things TurboGearish, it's often useful to spend some time studying other frameworks to see the different design decisions they made, and to maybe just get ideas on how you can improve your own chosen framework. It was with that mindset that I sat down to read Grok 1.0 Web Development by Carlos de la Guardia.