Quick web application building with TurboGears


The proposed talk is a tuturial on how to get started quickly with with the 
TurboGears web framework. It is targeted at people with some experience in web 
development but not necessarily with Python or TurboGears.

After a very short introduction on TurboGears in general, a streamlined process
for building a small web application is laid out quickly and then demonstrated 
using an easy to understand example. In the course of this demonstration, some 
of the handy tools that are included in TurboGears are shown, like the 
administration interface CatWalk and the FastData controller.


Here follows the outline of the topics covered:


Introduction (5min)

    - What is TurboGears?
    - What can it be used for?
    - Which components make up the TurboGears framework?
    - The Model-View-Controller pattern and you

Building a small web app in 20 minutes (20min)

    10 steps to your TurboGears application
    
        1) Quickstart your project
        2) Code your data model
        3) Create the database
        4) Add some bootstrap data using CatWalk
        5) Design your URLs
        6) Write your controller methods
        7) Write your templates
        8) Add some CSS and/or JavaScript
        9) Build an egg
        10) Deploy!

    Example: Yet Another Bookmark application
    
        Model: Bookmark and Tags
        URLs: list bookmarks, view/edit bookmarks, delete bookmarks
        Controllers the easy way: FastData
    
    Conclusion

Questions? (5-10 min)


Short biography: Christopher Arndt

Age: 34
Nationality: German
Occupation: freelancing Python developer in Cologne, Germany
Likes: Python & TurboGears, singing and guitar playing, good beer
Dislikes: bad beer, having to program in PHP for customers, being an employee

He discovered Python in the days of RedHat 4.x and has been a happy user of 
Linux and Python ever since. After working as a system administrator, project 
manager and programmer for several years, he has recently gone self-employed 
and develops web applications and other stuff for his customers. He 
participates actively in the TurboGears web framework project, where he is 
working on the documentation team. He also initiated a Python User Group in 
Cologne, Germany, where he lives and works.