Database-driven app in minutes!
Create a database-driven, ready-to-extend application in minutes. All with designer friendly templates, easy AJAX on the browser side and on the server side, not a single SQL query in sight with code that is as natural as writing a function.
See it for yourself in the 20 Minute Wiki screencast (41MB QuickTime). Or try it for yourself with the easy download and the 20 Minute Wiki tutorial. (This is the TurboGears 1.0 version of the tutorial.)
TurboGears Under The Hood
The ever popular Diggdot.us recently appeared in MacWorld as a way to let your geek flag fly. Previously, Diggdot had, itself, been digged.
Soda put TurboGears under the hood of Amnesty International's Irrepressible.info campaign website promoting freedom on the internet. The site was recently featured in the Observer and Slashdotted.
Oprius Software has some great screencasts showing off their slick information manager. See how far you can take TurboGears widgets.
TurboGears 1.0 Preview Underway
TurboGears 1.0 is currently available in a preview release. TurboGears 1.0 has an amazing line up of new features developed since the release of 0.8: widgets for easy forms creation and reuse of complex page elements, identity for authentication/authorization, easily managed internationalization tools and the exclusive Toolbox web-based GUI for handling a number of common tasks such as database updates.
Read an introductory article on O'Reilly Net
MacDevCenter, part of O'Reilly Net, has a feature article about TurboGears: What Is TurboGears (Hint: Python-Based Framework for Rapid Web Development). Matthew Russell gives a quick introduction to TurboGears and the article also includes an interview with Kevin Dangoor, project leader.
Python Powered
TurboGears is based on the agile, mature, cross-platform, well-documented, easy and fun Python programming language.
Python makes it super simple to get started with TurboGears, whether you're running Windows, Linux, Mac OS X or even a cell phone. OK, so you're probably not going to want to run a web server on your cell phone.
Any way you slice it, you'll be amazed how quickly you get started!