Published on 2006-03-01 21:27:23

I was reading today the presentation given by Kevin Dangoor at PyCon 2006 in Dallas on February 23, 2006 titled Effective Ajax with TurboGears. The screencast is about 23 minutes where Kevin introduced AJAX, the need to use this technology, with a history briefing, browsers, ajax implementations, ... etc. Samples goes from autocomplete, dues tracking which is very well explained and show the power of using AJAX in collaboration projects where many people work on the same database ... etc, then ordered lists, drag and drops. Kevin finished by talking about usability , the back button, bookmarks, ...

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You can see the screencast here, the paper of the presentation Effective Ajax with TurboGears, and download the tarball of the project. TurboGears is the rapid web development megaframework, which helps to create a database-driven, ready-to-extend application in minutes. All with designer friendly templates, easy AJAX on the browser side and on the server side, not a single SQL query in sight with code that is as natural as writing a function.

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