Update on the past, present, future of Pyramid at PloneConf/PyCon Brasilia 2013.

1. State of Pyramid
Paul Everitt
PloneConf/PyCon Brasilia, 2013
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2. 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
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3. AboutYou
• Who is not a Plone person?
• Who has used Pyramid?
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4. Overview
• Pyramid Background
• Current Status
• What’s Next
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5. What is Pyramid?
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9. What is Pyramid?
• Python (2 and 3) web framework
• Merger of repoze.bfg (from the Zope guys)
and Pylons
• Not Zope
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10. Goals of Pyramid
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11. Only Pay For WhatYou Eat
• Easy to start
• Few choices forced on you
• Small codebase
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12. Quality
• Full test and docs coverage (culture of docs
and tests)
• Performance, profiling
• Maturity (bug fixes, doc updates)
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13. 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, ...)
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14. ...and more
• Multiple template languages
• SQLAlchemy (or others) for storage/
retrieval
• Authentication and authorization
• Sessions, events, i18n, resources and
traversal, advanced configuration, ...
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15. The Now of Pyramid
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16. 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
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17. Community
• Upswing in contributors
• Big increase in events
• At this conference
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18. Documentation
• Deep developer
• “Evaluator” (Quick Tour, Quick Tutorial)
• Python 3, Pylons
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19. Deform2
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20. 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, ...
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21. Leonardo Rochael Almeida
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22. demo.substanced.net
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23. Next
• Marketing (storytelling)
• Documentation (Traversal,Add-on)
• Events
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