I had an aversion for almost all web development frameworks/technologies I came across: JSP, ASP, PHP, Struts and all that. Mixing hypertext with code, heavy use of design patterns, blah!! Recently I had a prejudiced look at Seaside, which is one of those continuations based web frameworks. Then I found this tutorial. After reading the first few chapters and trying out some code - surprise! Here is a web application framework that I am in love with! All those new-age JavaScript libraries may soon throw server managed sessions out of fashion. Still, if a framework allows web development in a very high level, dynamic, live language like Smalltalk, saving us from the horrible markup-code spaghetti, it must have a place in the programmer's toolbox.