Mike Coyle’s Weblog

TurboGears is now at 1.0 release, and now has a new leader, Alberto Valverde. Best of luck to Alberto, and kudos to Kevin Dangoor from going from “idea” to “self-sustaining community” in less than 18 months.

The archive of the IRC chat where yesterday’s numerous announcements took place is available here. I’m sure it will be nicely summarized elsewhere by many others who are closer to the details.

There is a lot of interesting tidbits regarding TG and how it will fit into the greater Python web app ecosystem. If TG and its relation to WSGI, Pylons, Paste, CherryPy, etc. are remotely interesting to you, it’s worth a read.

My $.02: Moving forward, TurboGears is staying true to its original integration roots, by providing some glue, a tiny bit of magic, and the assurance that all of its component parts will mesh nicely together.

Here is the article.  It also has a pretty good comparison between TurboGears and Django at the end of the article.  Django, another Python web framework was the subject of the first part of this two-part series.

Kevin Dangoor, the driving force behind TurboGears is taking pre-orders for his TurboGears Ultimate DVD.  The DVD is a collection of high quality screencasts of Kevin walking through the TurboGears framework APIs, along with commentary on how the various parts work behind-the-scenes.  Kevin has released a couple of screencasts (such as the 20-Minute Wiki), and both his presentation ability and production values are top-shelf.

Preorders (before 6AM EDT Thursday) are discounted, and you also have the opportunity to donate to the project and have your name or company logo in the credits.