A Short Introduction First

TurboGears is a full stack MVC web framework that is built on top of Pylons and which includes an ORM, a templating system, database migration tool, web helpers, authentication and authorization system by default just like Django. If you are wondering, there are two main differences between Django and TurboGears.

• TurboGears is using class based controllers and object dispatch.

• TurboGears is built using external Python libraries such as Pylons, WebOB, paster whereas everything in Django is built for Django.

It has been a long time since my last post. I actually have a draft post where I introduce Scala to you guys but I don't have the feeling of its being ready to post so you'll have to wait. :)

Pylons is the second most used Python web framework and in my opinion it's the best Python framework. Pylons simply provides you the environment you need for web development and lets you choose the tools for database and templating. I'm sure you will like it. I'm currently developing my start up with Pylons.

I am here to tell you about the new Pylons screencast series that I will be recording in the upcoming week. No, we are not going to build a blog or a twitter clone. What I have in mind is a clone of eksi sozluk, one of the most popular web sites of Turkey. You can think of it as a different Wikipedia.

The name of the series will be "Eksi on Pylons". Stay tuned for more news!

Update (10/31/2010): Pylons2 will be released soon and it will be something very different than it is now so the recording the screencasts is postponed until the first Pylons2 stable release.