Presenters

Mark Ramm and Ben Bangert

Intended Audience

Intermediate Python programmers. Familiarity with Python's syntax, HTML, SQL, and the basics of Pylons or TurboGears web development is assumed -- the morning tutorial should provide enough TG/Pylons knowledge for this class.

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 arange with the tutorial leaders to get install assistance prior to the start time for the class.

Description

Have you conqured the basics of Pylons/TurboGears2 (or just taken the morning class)? Do you want to understand more about how everything works, and how you can go beyond the basics to achieve mastery? Do you want to learn about how to easily add reusable ajax components to your application? Are you interested in writing web services, or rich internet applications with a python backend? This class will take you from a basic understanding of how to use the framework, to a clear picture of how the framework pieces are put together.

We will also cover how to create REST+JSON based web services, we'll focus particularly on how all this works with rich javascript based user interfaces, but the techniques should easily apply to Flex, or other "Rich Internet Application" tools.

Presenter Bio

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.