State of Pyramid - Brasilia 2013

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State of PyramidPaul Everitt

PloneConf/PyCon Brasilia, 2013

Tuesday, October 8, 13

Self-Indulgence

• Prehistoric

• Web, Python, Zope, Plone, Pyramid, Substance D

• Agendaless Consulting with Chris and Tres, Fredericksburg

• Manage large web projects...yep, I’m pimping

About You

• Who is not a Plone person?

• Who has used Pyramid?

Overview

• Pyramid Background

• Current Status

• What’s Next

What is Pyramid?

• Python (2 and 3) web framework

• Merger of repoze.bfg (from the Zope guys) and Pylons

• Not Zope

Goals of Pyramid

Only Pay For What You Eat

• Easy to start

• Few choices forced on you

• Small codebase

Quality

• Full test and docs coverage (culture of docs and tests)

• Performance, profiling

• Maturity (bug fixes, doc updates)

Small to Big

• “Start Small, Finish Big, Stay Finished”

• Starting point and finishing point

• Unique features that let you scale your design (configuration, events, custom renderers, view predicates, traversal, ...)

...and more

• Multiple template languages

• SQLAlchemy (or others) for storage/retrieval

• Authentication and authorization

• Sessions, events, i18n, resources and traversal, advanced configuration, ...

The Now of Pyramid

Pyramid 1.5

• 1.5a2 is feature complete

• No Chameleon! No Mako! No nuthin’!

• Very easy to add

• Hybrid routes/traversal

• pdistreport

• View matches on inheritance

Community

• Upswing in contributors

• Big increase in events

• At this conference

Documentation

• Deep developer

• “Evaluator” (Quick Tour, Quick Tutorial)

• Python 3, Pylons

Deform2

Substance D

• Pyramid content framework for “civilized” web applications

• Not an application

• SDI (ZMI), Content Types, Forms, Security, ZODB, Cataloging (deferred), Undo, References, Workflow, Dumping, Stats, ...

Leonardo Rochael Almeida

demo.substanced.net

• Marketing (storytelling)

• Documentation (Traversal, Add-on)

• Events

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