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January 1, 2006

TurboGears now supports Cheetah and Stan

by Kevin Dangoor

The other day, I talked about what TurboGears is not, specifically mentioning template systems. TurboGears has one documented, supported and included way for generating pages: Kid. But, with the latest code in Subversion, TurboGears now also supports other template engines via plugins that provide fairly seamless support for other systems.

Which other systems? There are already two plugins, and writing plugins is easy (and documented).

TurboCheetah provides support for, you guessed it!, Cheetah. Since that one is in the Cheeseshop, you can get it just by running “easy_install TurboCheetah”. If you run “easy_install -f http://www.turbogears.org/download/ TurboCheetah”, you can even get prebuilt eggs for Cheetah 1.0 for Windows and Mac.
Cliff Wells has written a plugin for Stan. Once he gets that up on the Cheeseshop, that will be easy_installable as well.

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January 1, 2006

Now running WordPress 2.0

by Kevin Dangoor

There’s nothing quite like an upgrade which is easy, seamless and gives a whole bunch of new features. The WordPress 2.0 upgrade was like that. Nice. I’ve also switched from the WordPress default theme (which I used for an embarrassingly long time), to the nice and modern K2.

I would certainly like to use a TurboGears-based blog, but I tend to be more practical than that. WordPress gives me a lot of great blogging features with a giant community supporting it.

January 1, 2006

Happy New Year!

by Kevin Dangoor

2005 was a very interesting year for me, and it feels like it’s really just a warm up for an exceedingly interesting 2006.