The TurboGears web framework has stable and supported 1.x and 2.x versions. This talk will cover what's new in these new versions, and what's coming to TurboGears in '09. I'll also be talking about what web framework development means in a world of reusable WSGI components, and how the python web world has radically remapped itself over the 2 and a half years since TurboGears was released.

Fedora's Infrastructure team utilizes multiple python technologies and has deployed 6 home built TurboGears applications in the last year and a half. It's not just a development platform, it's also a way of life in the Infrastructure team. Lots of custom scripts and systems administration via func only scratch the surface of what Fedora is doing with Python.

You get a call from your bank asking "Are you logging into your account right now?" With your answer you can either continue banking or stop an intruder from accessing your account, without the hassles of the Chase secret agent man. While a phone call to verify identity would be overkill for a forum post, you can add this to your website login process to verify identity and give your customers peace of mind.
 
We will look at multi factor authentication with user acceptance, how to extend some common Python web frameworks, and integrate the Asterisk VoIP platform. Sniffers, key loggers, or shoulder surfers are no longer a problem. You don't need a secret agent, just a bit of Python.

Plone is a great content management system, recently voted best non-PHP open source CMS in a popular yearly contest. Many Python web developers, however, find Plone somewhat heavy and are not precisely in love with Zope, the web framework behind the CMS.
 
What if you could use Plone only as a CMS and program a frontend in whichever Python web framework you want, with transparent access to the content? This way you get a proven, high-reward, low-maintenance CMS as a content backend and are free to write your application on top of that using the power and flexibility of your favorite web framework.
 
In this talk, I will show how this can be done using a couple of Plone products and simple front ends for various frameworks which can be used as a base for other required functionality.