Weekly TurboGears URL (Sep 24, 2005)
I’ve found the Dr. Dobb’s Python-URL! mailing to be a concise way to keep up with what’s going on in Python without actually following comp.lang.python directly. I’m going to do something similar here, for those who are just following the blog or the announcements list. This first issue will go to the main TurboGears list, but I’m not sure if that makes sense to do in the future.
QOTW: “My optimism and excitement WRT TG increases daily.” – Jeremy Jones Link
Patches came in this week from John Miller, Bob Ippolito, Elvelind Grandin, Fabian Neumann, kickdaddy, Kent Johnson, and gasolin. (There were possibly others that submitted documentation patches during the crazy early days of the week. Sorry if I left you out!)
A TurboGears sprint is coming up on October 8th in Ann Arbor, Michigan: Link
TextDrive pitches in and saves me from almost certain hosting doom. Link
That, of course, came after Bob Ippolito saved me from actual hosting doom (by hosting the screencast at MochiKit.com for a day): Link
On Thursday, with the new home at TextDrive in place, the public Subversion repository opened for business. http://www.turbogears.org/svn/turbogears
There were a number of interesting questions and discussions that came up that help to define what TurboGears is or, at least, what it isn’t. It doesn’t involve abstracting out the individual frameworks: Link or specifically supporting database APIs other than SQLObject (and the underlying DBAPI): Link
Good news from SQLObject: Matthew Cahn has working Oracle support for SQLObject 0.6.1 and is working on moving the code to 0.7. Link
More than 4,300 views of the “20 Minute Wiki” screencast. More than 4,700 eggs served from TurboGears.org. 140 members on the TurboGears Google Group.
TurboGears discussion: http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears
TurboGears announcements: http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears-announce