Chapter 1.5. What Can You Do with TurboGears?

TurboGears is designed to help you write web applications. You can write wikis; Flickr-like photo-sharing sites; or a new database-driven, Ajax-enabled, dynamic, web 2.0 fan site for Charlize Theron. Whatever you want, you can do it with TurboGears.

TurboGears is not a content management system, nor is it a giant enterprise application framework. But, you can use it to build a content management application, as somebody already has, or to build enterprise applications, if that’s what you need.

TurboGears is currently best suited to those who can control their database structure, but it is rapidly becoming the best “agile language” web framework for those of you who have large, complex databases. ...

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