Blue Sky On Mars

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New TurboGears-related screencasts and requests

by Kevin Dangoor

If you haven’t already seen it, you should check out the screencast for the online marking tool that Greg Wilson’s group made. Very slick stuff, and I wish the graders had a tool like that when I was in school.

Oprius has posted three new screencasts of their slick Foundations package.

Finally, the good folks of ShowMeDo have pointed me to a page to request TurboGears screencasts. Put in a call for your topic of choice.

Algorithms book

by Kevin Dangoor

Free Algorithms textbook – because you never know when you’ll need a different algorithm.

RPath’s RAA – building custom Linuxes with a TG app

by Kevin Dangoor

Another TurboGears-based product showed up on Digg a few days ago (I’m a bit tardy in blogging this one, sorry!) RPath makes a great-sounding tool for building custom Linux distributions for appliances. Linux is a great embedded platform for medium to large devices, depending on your requirements, and RAA lets you get your Linux in shape easily so that you can focus on your application (might I suggest that TurboGears is a good way to make the UI for your app? :) . You can read more at Joseph Tate’s blog.