"Dear PHP, It's over between us. You can keep the kitchen sink, but I want my MVC. With TurboGears, I was able to shed the most heinous File Maker Pro legacy 'solution' imaginable.
It has relationships based on fields that change frequently, causing 'disappearing data.' I replaced it with an easy to maintain Turbo Gears application.
Defunkifying and normalizing many years worth of munged data took twice as long as developing the TurboGears' application itself.
TurboGears' excellent set of tools and best-of-breed approach makes it so easy to build applications quickly." - Isaac Csandl, Manager of Information Technology, Chicago Legal Search, Ltd. "TurboGears has resulted in significant time savings for rPath.
Before it was released, we expected to spend significant time building a Web framework for our rPath Appliance Agent product.
Turbo Gears sharpens our focus on building a quality application; it allows us to provide more value to our customers, rather than reinventing the Web wheel." - Michael K.
Johnson, rPath Founding Engineer and Coauthor of "Linux Application Development, Second Edition"."I think this is the first time that a Web framework's functionality has been so obvious." - Bruce Eckel, Author of "Thinking in Java" and "Thinking in C++". "TurboGears helped me build more complex Web applications more quickly and with fewer headaches than any other framework I've used.
Just like Python itself, it made me more productive with a minimal learning curve." - Quentin Hartman, System Administrator. "TurboGears has changed the way I develop Web applications, from model, to view, to controller.
Thanks to the power of TurboGears, I was able to develop the first version of What What in less than a week of my spare time." - Jonathan LaCour, Development Team Lead, Optio. "TurboGears has provided a way for me to greatly enhance my productivity by realizing the potential of Web-based agile development with Python." - Brandon Goldfedder, Vice President of Engineering, Information Extraction and Transport (IET Inc.), and Author of "The Joy of Patterns". "TurboGears really changed the way I schedule project releases: It allows me to deliver them faster and with better quality than when I used to use GUI toolkits."- Jorge Godoy, Owner of G2C Tech Consultoria in Brazil, former Lead Developer for Conectiva documentation team. "With TurboGears, I was able to transition my Python projects into Web applications as easily as possible." - Benjamin T.
Hamilton, Software Engineer. Norwegian-based company Scanmine AS makes extensive use of Python and Turbo-Gears in all parts of its operation.
Turbo Gears makes it a breeze to build highly sophisticated Web 2.0 applications with out-of-the-box features for multiple languages with full Unicode, REST, AJAX, RSS/Atom, and more.
This enables Scanmine to put a face on their technology development in a minimal amount of time. "It has been said that there are as many Web frameworks as there are Python Web programmers.
This apparent Web framework fragmentation has long been perceived as a weakness, until Turbo Gears came along and turned weakness into strength." - Rune Hansen, Senior Systems Designer, Scanmine AS. "TurboGears is a well thought-out framework; the design choices it has made will help you be more productive.
Turbo Gears will give you confidence with its foundation of stable best-of-breed Python components.If you are coming from other languages, consider working in Turbo Gears and Python to bring fun back into your Web development work." - Jeff Marshall, Partner with Frozen Bear. "When we started developing Oprius Foundations with TurboGears, we weren't sure if it really would help us develop quicker and higher-quality code.
After two months, we had a task manager to rival Tada List.
After seven months, we had an entire contact management system to compete with the big boys." - Jason Chu, Lead Developer, Oprius Software Inc. "Conventional programming wisdom states that rewriting any working project from scratch is a bad idea.
Turbo Gears was good enough to convince me to do this anyway, and I have been nothing but thrilled with the results.
With TurboGears, I was able to implement an AJAX-based Web site with a nice Web API more easily than I ever thought possible.
If you are trying to do either of those in Python, you owe it to yourself to look at this project.
Using Turbo Gears was one of the few times in my programming career where a task was significantly less complicated than I thought possible." - Adam Jones, Lead Programmer, Recursive Thought Software."Master TurboGears: The Easy Python Framework for Rapid Web Development Turbo Gears" harnesses the power of Python to provide a dynamic and easy-to-use Web development framework: one that dramatically increases developer productivity, and makes it far easier to create dynamic, user-friendly, Ajax-enabled Web applications.
Now, for the first time, there's a definitive guide to TurboGears - coauthored by its creator, Kevin Dangoor.
This book will help experienced Web developers get productive with TurboGears - fast.
You'll quickly build your first Turbo Gears Web application - then extend it one step at a time, mastering the underlying libraries that make these enhancements possible.
Next, the authors demonstrate Turbo Gears at work in a real-world application, by examining the code for "WhatWhat Status," an open source project status tracking application.
Finally, you'll gain deep insight into the model, view, and controller technologies Turbo Gears is built upon: knowledge that will help you build far more robust and capable Python applications.Its coverage includes: understanding the architecture of a Turbo Gears application; mastering SQLObject, customizing it, and using it with Turbo Gears models; utilizing Turbo Gears view technologies, including dynamic templates and Mochi Kit for Ajax; bringing CSS, XHTML, and Java Script together in reusable components with Turbo Gears Widgets; using Cherry Py and Turbo Gears controller technologies: from decorators to deployment; exploring the Turbo Gears toolbox; and, ensuring security and managing user access permissions in Turbo Gears applications.The contents include: Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I: Turbo Gears Fundamentals: Chapter 1 - Introduction to Turbo Gears; Chapter 2 - Getting Started with Turbo Gears; Chapter 3 - The Architecture of a Turbo Gears Application; Part II: Building a Simple Turbo Gears Application: Chapter 4 - Creating a Simple Application; Chapter 5 - Enhancing Our Bookmark Application; Part III: Exploring a Real World Turbo Gears Application: Chapter 6 - Exploring More Complex Models in What What Status; Chapter 7 - Controllers, Views, and Java Script in the What What Status; Chapter 8 - RSS, Cookies, and Dynamic Views in What What Status; Chapter 9 - Ajax and What What Status Projects; Part IV: SQLObject and Turbo Gears Models: Chapter 10 - SQLObject Basics; Chapter 11 - Mastering SQLObject; Chapter 12 - Customizing SQLObject Behavior.Part V: Turbo Gears View Technologies: Chapter 13 - Dynamic Templates with Kid; Chapter 14 - Creating Better Java Script with Mochi Kit; Chapter 15 - Effective Ajax with Mochi Kit; Chapter 16 - Turbo Gears Widgets: Bringing CSS, XHTML, and Java Script Together in Reusable Components; Part VI: Cherry Py and Turbo Gears Controller Technologies: Chapter 17 - Cherry Py and Turbo Gears Decorators; Chapter 18 - Turbo Gears Deployment; Part VII: Turbo Gears Extras: Chapter 19 - The Turbo Gears Toolbox and Other Tools; Chapter 20 - Internationalization; Chapter 21 - Testing a Turbo Gears Application; Chapter 22 - Turbo Gears Identity and Security; Part VIII: Appendix: SQLAlchemy; and, Index.
