TurboGears News

TurboGears Ultimate DVD on ShowMeDo for free!

Kevin Dangor has just announced that the videos from the TurboGears Ultimate DVD are now available at ShowMeDo for free viewing!

The video series is composed of 13 episodes with a running total of several hours of TurboGears goodness. While the DVD was produced in 2006 when release 0.9a6 of TurboGears was current, much of the material is still relevant and useful for new TurboGears programmers. For example, check out the introduction to creating JavaScript widgets!

Thanks to Kevin for producing this DVD and releasing it to the general public now for free!

posted on 2008-04-05 by Christopher Arndt

TurboGears is a Google Summer of Code 2008 mentoring organisation!

Google has just announced the list of organizations which were accepted as sponsors of the Google Summer of Code 2008 (GSoC) program. We are exited that TurboGears was chosen to be one of them!

I think we put together a very decent application and this effort has luckily paid off so far. Now we are seeking students, who would like to work as part of the TurboGears GSoC 2008 effort, over the summer, on one of our proposed projects or a an idea of their own. Accepted students receive a stipend of $ 4500 and can be sure to be part of a very exiting effort to make web-programming with Python even more fun than it already is today!

Spread the word! - On your blogs and in your user groups and in your lecture halls!

Detailed information about our program, mentors, project ideas and how to apply can be found on our TurboGears GSoC program page:

• http://docs.turbogears.org/GSoC

posted on 2008-03-18 by Christopher Arndt

TurboGears 1.0.4.4 released!

TurboGears maintainer Florent Aide has announced the latest release in the 1.0 series today. In his announcement on the TurboGears mailing list he remarks:

• This release marks the last active version of the 1.0 branch. All new developments will now occur in the 1.1 branch.

This means that the 1.0 series now goes into "maintenance" mode, i.e. it will only receive important bug-fixes and security updates. Florent further explains:

• The [yet unreleased] 1.1 branch will provide different defaults: Genshi and SQLAlchemy.

Development on the new 1.1 version has already started and the TurboGears developers are interested to hear from users what they expect from this version. Since development on TurboGears 2 - which will have an entirely new code base - is also already well underway, TurboGears 1.1 will be an interim release to ease the transition for TurboGears 1.0 users and to maintain backwards compatibility.

If you want to get involved in the development of TurboGears, either by submitting code or by helping out the project in other ways, now is a perfect time to do so!. Because this is an important time of transition for the project, Chris Zwerschke has posted a call for help on behalf of all project members, which lists a whole slew of different areas where you can make your mark. We are looking forward to hear from you!

As always, you can refer to the change log, for a full list of changes, fixes and contributors to this release.

posted on 2008-03-08 by Christopher Arndt

New TurboGears Article on Oracle OTN

Daniel Rubio has just published an excellent online article about TurboGears on the Oracle Technology Network. The piece is a tutorial on how get started with TurboGears 1.0 with SQLAlchemy and using an Oracle database. Definitely worth a read. Thanks, Daniel!

Read the article here: Using Python with TurboGears

posted on 2007-11-27 by Christopher Arndt

Nadev Samet announces TGFusionCharts widget

On his blog, Nadev Samet today announced TGFusionCharts, a TurboGears widget collection, that allows you to integrate the spiffy, Flash-based charts from FusionCharts easily into your TurboGears application.

Thanks to Nadev for this fine addition to the TurboGears eco system!

posted on 2007-07-25 by Christopher Arndt

TurboGears 1.0.3 released!

The latest in the 1.0.x series, TurboGears 1.0.3 has just been released. Thanks to Florent Aide and many other contributors for making this release possible.

This release brings improved Python 2.3 compatibility, an Elixir quickstart data model, improved i18n features, support for new Kid features, and (as always) numerous fixes, and much more. See the full change log, for a full list of changes, fixes and contributors.

The TurboGears team wishes happy hacking!

Update 2007-0720: We have released a bugfix version 1.0.3.2 (1.0.3.1 was not released). tg-setup.py will pick up this new release automatically.

posted on 2007-07-19 by ChristopherArndt

TurboGears 2.0 Development to be based on Pylons

The TurboGears development team announced a new plan for TurboGears 2.0 yesterday and provided an updated development roadmap, from 1.1 to the forthcoming 2.0 release.

The big news is that TurboGears 2 will maintain a TurboGears API, but be based on Pylons. Other big news is that TurboGears 1.1 beta should be released withing the next couple of weeks, and TurboGears 2.0 is already usable in trunk -- though it is still undergoing heavy development.

In a reaction to this announcement, Kevin Dangoor, founder of the TurboGears project says that he is exited that TurboGears is going back to its roots by providing a small layer to integrate other libraries and that "significant activity [...] is going on in the project right now".

posted on 2007-6-28 by MarkRamm, edited by ChristopherArndt 2007-06-30

TurboGears experimental sprint in Atlanta

Mark Ramm, owner of Compound Thinking and author of the TurboGears book has announced an experimental TurboGears sprint organized by some Atlanta-area businesses. Mark says, "We're thinking that it would be a worthwhile experiment to try to reimplementing the core TurboGears API on top of Paste/Pylons and see what we get." There is a Google Group for the sprint and you can read the original announcement on the turbogears-trunk mailing list.

posted on 2007-06-18 by ChristopherArndt

TurboGears 1.0.2.2 brings support for Python 2.5

Though TurboGears 1.0.2.2 was released already over a month ago, on May 2, some of you might not be aware that with this release the TurboGears 1.0 branch now fully supports Python 2.5. This article sheds light on the most important new features of this release. Read more...

posted on 2007-06-14 by ChristopherArndt

TurboGears News Ticker goes online

I'm pleased to announce the creation of the TurboGears News page on this wiki. This page will keep you updated about important events around TurboGears like new releases, new third-party software, the progress of documentation efforts and so on.

Everybody is free to post news here, but I would like to ask you to get a wiki account and create a homepage for it, so we can see who's responsible for an article. You can find more information about editing the news in the source of this page. Let the stories flow!

posted on 2007-06-14 by ChristopherArndt