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First Werkzeug Screencast

written by Armin Ronacher, on Monday, April 27, 2009 21:34.

I've played with the idea of recording a screencast for Werkzeug for a long time. Unfortunately recording a screencast is a lot more work than you would think so it took me a long time to create one where I was at least partially happy with. I know the one I've uploaded is far from perfect: the sound is not so well, the narration is so-so and there is even a small error in the recording I had to fix using an overlay.

But I spend too much work in it already to just throw it away. I promise I will upload a finer version with the next release of Werkzeug, but until then I hope it still helps a bit.

I tried to stick to the very basic things you would want to do with Werkzeug. No fancy JavaScript or flickr API tricks. The screencast gives you a quick introduction into Werkzeug with Jinja2 as template engine and SQLAlchemy as database abstraction layer to create a simple wiki application.

The screencast is available with sources on werkzeug.pocoo.org/wiki30. It should work fine on VLC and QuickTime.

Tagged as: announcement, screencast, werkzeug

Comments

  1. database.py is missing import of `join` from `sqlalchemy.orm`.

    —  Pradeep Gowda on Tuesday, April 28, 2009 12:59 #

  2. I'm still working through the screencast, but running the wiki app via `start-server.py` throws up `table does not exist` error.

    Is there a step preceding this, to create tables or is it created automatically on first startup?

    —  Pradeep Gowda on Tuesday, April 28, 2009 13:12 #

  3. I accidentally uploaded a wrong zip file. Uploaded the correct one now. Before you can start the server you have to create the database tables. See the README file I added to the new archive.

    —  Armin Ronacher on Tuesday, April 28, 2009 16:19 #

  4. In the `README` file,

    `>>> from wiki30.database import metadata, database_engine`

    should read

    `>>> from wiki.database import metadata, database_engine`

    —  Pradeep Gowda on Tuesday, April 28, 2009 17:35 #

  5. Nice screencast, thanks!

    Which vim colorscheme are you using? maybe you could even update your vimrc from pocoo.org/~mitsuhiko/_vimrc ? :)

    —  lax on Saturday, May 2, 2009 0:52 #

  6. Dude, I really wanted to see your screencast. I really did.

    Um, how do I say this.

    Let's just say, please work on your voice for the next screencast.

    —  Critic on Friday, May 15, 2009 20:01 #

  7. This is a fantastic screencast and your work on Werkzeug is great!

    —  vineire on Friday, October 2, 2009 23:25 #

  8. Great screencast, really helpful for picking up some best practices. However, I have a question. In action_show you use `Revision.query.filter_by(page=page)', while in action_edit you use `page.revisions'. To me, these are identical. Are they not?

    —  Felix on Monday, March 8, 2010 21:47 #

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