ANN: TurboGears 0.8a1 front-to-back web development

[Kevin Dangoor]

TurboGears 0.8a1 is available now!

What's New
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This is a brief summary. The complete information about what's
new can be found here: http://www.turbogears.org/about/changelog.html

* API improvements based on feedback and patches from the first public
release. Seven people contributed patches to TurboGears directly, and
there's been quite a bit going on in the other projects.
* Easier production of XML output from controller methods
* Static file directories are set up in new quickstarted projects
* Updates to all of the main included projects
* IPython is used as the shell, if IPython is available
* Bonjour support on the Mac
* New getting started guide, and command line tool and configuration
references and a new site template by Sebastian Jansson.
* Several bug fixes

Introduction
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TurboGears (http://www.turbogears.org) brings together four major
pieces to create an easy to install, easy to use web megaframework. It
covers everything from front end (MochiKit JavaScript for the browser,
Kid for templates in Python) to the controllers (CherryPy) to the back
end (SQLObject).

The TurboGears project is focused on providing documentation and
integration with these tools without losing touch with the communities
that already exist around those tools.

TurboGears is easy to use for a wide range of web applications.

To get a quick idea of what TurboGears is like, take a look at the 20
Minute Wiki tutorial and screencast. The total screencast with brief
intro and conclusion did take a little over 23 minutes, but it's close
to 20 minutes :)

20 Minute Wiki: http://www.turbogears.org/docs/wiki20/index.html

TurboGears site: http://www.turbogears.org/

A big thanks to Remi Delon, Ian Bicking, Bob Ippolito, Ryan Tomayko,
Phillip Eby and the many other contributors who have provided all of
these great tools. Thanks also to the TurboGears contributors!

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