Presenters

Mark Ramm and Ben Bangert

Intended audience

Intermediate Python programmers. Familiarity with Python's syntax, HTML, SQL, and the basics of web development is assumed.

Requirements

Attendees should bring their laptops with Python version 2.5, Pylons and TurboGears 2 installed. If help is needed installing Pylons/Turbogears, attendees should arrive 1 hour prior to start time for assistance.

Short Description

Are you interested in building web applications with modern libraries and tools? Do you want to build on top of the work that many others have done? Have you done some basic web development, but want to be more productive. If so, this is the class for you.

Over the last year two of the leading Python web development toolkits, TurboGears and Pylons have intentionally moved to share large amounts of code. We've also broken out pieces of the two frameworks to make them available to others. The result is a powerful, flexible, set of tools that helps make it easy to use the best tools available in Python (really, some of the best tools available anywhere) to build dynamic web applications.

Presenter Bios

Mark Ramm is the author of Rapid Web Applications with TurboGears, the leader of the TurboGears 2 project, and has presented at PyCon for the last two years, including a TurboGears tutorial at PyCon 2008. He's the founder of Compound Thinking, which focused on Python training, consulting and software development.

Ben Bangert is the Senior Web Architect for a project based out of Stanford Law School. He's been working with Python for the past 5 years, and created the popular Python Web Framework Pylons. He lives in Sonoma County, where in addition to working he hacks on Pylons and other Python web toolkits along with the occasional dog walk.