Jeremy Jones, writing for O’Reilly states “I was compelled enough to give
TurboGears a spin. Why? I watched the TurboGears
video.”. As much as it pains me to
admit it, that’s largely what got me to try TurboGears too.
I’ve already written about searching for a Web application framework, and
last weekend I spent most of Friday night and all of Saturday (much to my
wife’s consternation) searching for a really good platform I could build
on. I wanted to build on JSP because of the really cool tag library support
(I still think this is a critical addition to something like TurboGears),
but there was no way I could ever justify (or probably afford) a hosting
account that allowed me to run JSPs.
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I’ve been exploring TurboGears since Saturday when I first ran across it.
It’s amazing just how quick it is to create a small Web application. I haven’t yet expanded my scope beyond small samples, but I can easily see how this framework (or mega-framework as it’s being called by others) will be invaluable for a project I’m working on.
I just finished watching the 20 minute screen cast of TurboGears. Now I’m eager to download it and try it out.
I actually spent most of this weekend looking for a decent Web development environment — I don’t do Perl or PHP (I think they’re both craptacular languages) — and although I’d rather use JavaScript on the server side, I think Python will be an interesting twist.
Typing out document.getElementById can get a little tedious after a while. One of the best alternatives I’ve seen takes advantage of a little known feature of Javascript (and oddly enough C/C++ and possible Java): the dollar sign ($) is a valid identifier character.
Consider the following code:
In a recent article on his Web site, Derek Powazek recommends embracing the bottom of the page. I’ve whipped up a redesigned version of this site taking these ideas to heart.
