Installing Turbogears meets IMDb from scratch
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Installing Turbogears meets IMDb from scratch

I have given my Turbogears meets IMDb webprogramming and scripting lecture again and produced a little video for it. You can see me getting the project to run on a vanilla machine (Python 2.5 and easy_install already installed) in less than two minutes. The video also shows a quick walk-through of the browser-based user interface,…

Faces of Medieninformatik
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Faces of Medieninformatik

My former course of study “Medieninformatik” (Media Informatics) at Hochschule Harz just celebrated its 10 years jubilee on the 10th of November 2007. I had been invited to give a talk about Pervasive Gaming and it was a great pleasure to come back to the place where my academic career started and to see so…

Heartlands (‘Ere be Dragons) won the Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Award 2007
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Heartlands (‘Ere be Dragons) won the Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Award 2007

We (the artist from Active Ingredient, Capra and me from MRL) recently went to Tampere / Finland to collect the “Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Award 2007” for the heartrate-based game Heartlands (previously known as ‘Ere be Dragons). The judges said “Heartlands (‘Ere Be Dragons) lets us discover a world on top of reality at the rhythm…

TurboGears meets IMDb
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TurboGears meets IMDb

I recently gave two guest-lectures at Nottingham University on web-programming using TurboGears. The first lecture was a general introduction to Model-View-Controller web-programming using TurboGears. The second lecture was more practical: I wanted to present a full mini-application and show the students how it was built. And I also wanted the application to be at least…

Getting to Grips with TurboGears
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Getting to Grips with TurboGears

I kept this log of my TurboGears installation process on my Windows XP Pro machine. ~19:20: visited webpage “www.turbogears.org” 19:25 – 19:28: installed running “tgsetup.py” with an existing Python 2.4.2 added c:\python24\scripts to the path 19:31: ran “tg-admin info” started writing this notes-file 19:36: started to follow the “getting started” tutorial at http://docs.turbogears.org/1.0/Wiki20/Page1?action=show&redirect=1.0%2FGettingStarted 19:37: “easy_install…