Class Outline: Advanced Web Application Development with TurboGears

  * Introduction to Ajax:
      * Asynchronous programming basics
      * Mochikit and "Deferred" actions
      * JSON and TurboGears Decorators
  * Introduction to REST:
      * URL's as programming API
      * Using JSON as data transfer system
      * RESTfull URL's with CherryPy
  * DOM Manipulation with Mochikit:
  * Workshop -- Modifying a simple Ajax app. 
  * Packaging Ajax features in reusable components with Widgets:
      * How TGWidgets work
      * Using TGWidgets outside TurboGears 
  * Advanced Data Access patterns and SQLAlchemy:
      * Active Record VS Data Mapper
      * Identity Map
      * Unit of Work
      * Moving from SQLObject to SQLAlchemy
  * Workshop  -- modifying an app that uses Widgets and SQLAlchemy
      * Break into groups and add a new feature to an
        AJAX heavy application
      * Widgets will be used to encapsulate most of the JavaScript 
  * Under the covers with WSGI:
      * Understanding WSGI
      * Why middleware
      * When you should have used a library