A new era for TurboGears has started. From core developers to community members, we have started doing something for TurboGears. It deserves it. We love it. We want to spread it. That's why, if you are wondering. I have started a blog on TurboGears development. For you. For any web developer. For any Python web developer. You will start from scratch and become an advanced TurboGears developer. You will like it. You will become very productive with TurboGears. You can visit the blog at [http://tglogs.wordpress.com](http://tglogs.wordpress.com). Let me know your ideas, your suggestions and feedback. Enjoy!

Hello everyone! Recently I have seen a cloud service called DotCloud. It seemed nice and I wanted to check its Python support. I've looked at their documentation and saw their Django docs which basically means they support WSGI. I also wanted to see how much effort does it take to deploy on this service. I have jumped in, signed up and tried to deploy a very simple quickstarted TurboGears project to DotCloud. It went well. Let's go ahead and deploy a quickstarted project.

Disclaimer ---------- You are about to read a long story on how I got burnt with MongoDB and depressed with it. I am not blaming MongoDB, anyone using, advocating or developing it. I am blaming myself for this. MongoDB is a good tool. You can use it but just make sure it is what you need and it handles your requirements very well. This is not specific to MongoDB but applies to every tool we use. A Brief Intro ---------- I am working for the top entertainment tv production company in Turkey. This season we have launched a new show called "The Voice of Turkey". Americans would know this show as just "The Voice" while Dutchs as "The Voice of Holland". Long story short, boss called us and explained he wanted a page for contestants with their detailed information and a wall on it where members and the contestants would post. We thought OK, we can use our current infrastracture and go with caching for reads. After he told he is going to make live announcements the only thing I had in my mind was MongoDB. I knew that it could handle heavy reads and writes so why not use it? I've discussed with the rest of the team. We used it.

I can call 2011 quite a good year on my behalf however when I look at things I've done, I feel I've done much less than I could. Here is a list of what I have done in 2011. Things I've Done in 2011 ---------- * Executed an idea we had with my brother, [http://compector.com](http://compector.com). * Built the start-up above with Ruby on Rails so I became more familiar with Ruby world. * I have made the switch to PostgreSQL from MySQL. * Got a job in one of Turkey's top web sites where we deal with thousands of concurrent users...

I have been developing the new version of www.osesturkiye.com for the Turkish version of the show called "The Voice". It's already built with TurboGears, mako and SQLAlchemy. In the new version we have a gallery and many photos in it. My SQLAlchemy model is like this: class GalleryPhoto(DeclarativeBase): __tablename__ = 'gallery_photo' id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True) photo_image = Column(UnicodeText) photo_description = Column(UnicodeText) dateline = Column(DateTime, default=datetime.now) The problem I have is, in the photo detail page I will display "Previous" and "Next" links. I can implement this with two ways..