Posted in howto, python, turbogears on Nov 17th, 2006
In this tutorial I’ll show you how to create a simple, yet powerful, tagging system using SQLAlchemy with TurboGears. As the concept of tags, and social tagging in particular, have become very popular, clients now demand “tagging-enabled” applications. So, here’s a simple way to get you started.
Our application will associate sites with tags (many to [...]
Posted in turbogears, webilder on Oct 13th, 2006
Webilder is a great way to have beautiful wallpapers on your GNOME or KDE desktop. You tell Webilder what flickr tags to follow and relevant photos are downloaded to your computer. Very simple. So how Webilder is related to TurboGears?
It occured to me that it would be nice to have a place where people can [...]
Posted in howto, turbogears on Jul 14th, 2006
Internet Explorer is known to cache the responses of GET calls. The problem occurs if your javascript functions request the same url over and over again. Internet Explorer will cache the response of the first call, and subsequent calls will automatically return the same response, without actually contacting the server. There are two approaches to [...]
Posted in howto, turbogears on Jun 2nd, 2006
I remember that day about a month ago, when it occured to me it is high time that I write some unit tests for my project. In the beginning, it felt like travelling where no man has gone before - a lot of technical issues to settle. I introduced my BrowserSession class to aid stateful [...]
Posted in turbogears on May 31st, 2006
Lately I’ve started to write many unit tests for my secret turbogears project. My secret project, like many other web 2.0 applications, can have a lot of users logged in at the same time and the actions of one user can affect other users.
The current testing tools provided by TurboGears do not give “one obvious [...]
Posted in howto, turbogears on Apr 15th, 2006
I have been a customer of BlueHost (a very friendly web hosting provider) since I’ve created the Python Challenge, about a year ago. A short time later, I’ve added to my account the domain thesamet.com which I use as my personal homepage and blog. Recently, I’ve started working with TurboGears and wondered whether BlueHost could [...]