Christopher Perkins

Compound Thinking

Chris Perkins is a developer, mentor, entrepreneur, and consultant. Chris works closely with the TurboGears development team, combining the best of breed technologies with his own intuition and sensitivity for developer and customer needs alike. Currently Chris is employed by the National Renewable Energy laboratory, where he enables scientists to access their data, and promoting Python when he can. He also works for various other firms as an independent consultant.

TurboGears: An Exercise in Natural Selection View session page

English session

These days there's a web framework for everyone. Java, Ruby, PHP, even Scala have their own frameworks. In the Python world, the creation of WSGI (Web Standard Gateway Interface) has exacerbated web framework proliferation; it's just too easy to roll your own. The question is: has WSGI rendered the concept of a framework passe?

TurboGears is a Python web framework that helps the developer by providing an intelligent set of defaults, while enabling the developer to choose his favorite database mapping, templating language, or adjunct WSGI software to add to the stack.

This talk will examine how TurboGears aims to "Make the simple things easy. Make the difficult things possible." while maintaining the idea that choosing your own framework is valuable.

Hand-on Web Development with Python and TurboGears View training page

This hands-on training aims to bring students up to speed with TurboGears 2, its administration interface, and touch common deployment scenarios. Student will also get to customize auto generated forms and tables.

Students can to bring database of their own and to build a TurboGears application on top of it.