A few weeks ago I thought I'd jump into the 21st century and check out a web framework or two. I looked at RoR first, and after a little mind-bending I understood it reasonably well. It really requires you to be one with RoR to grok it fully. Shortly after that, however, I noticed the Netherlands contract advertised, which was of course for a Python developer. Since things were going well there, I decided to focus once again on Python.
There are a few interesting web frameworks for Python.. but my eyes fell on Django and I gave it a go. I must say, I'm impressed. It's far less hyped than Rails, and it's really quite simple. I wrote this entire website with under 350 lines of Python code, plus HTML templates. The administrative interface is quite neat, although I wish it were a little more customisable and a little less tied to the database structure. The basics required only 200 lines of code -- comment spam checking, email integration, and custom captcha code took up the rest. It took quite a while to get here, though, as I was learning on the way.
I'm using SQLite, because I really don't need or want anything more. In fact, I still think that a database is overkill for a blog/wiki. I am, however, mildly impressed with the result. I'm also using Markdown (modified) for a more wiki-style of editing.