- mega example cleanup

- added READMEs to all examples in each __init__.py and added to sphinx documentation
- added versioning example
- removed vertical/vertical.py, the dictlikes are more straightforward

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diff --git a/examples/beaker_caching/environment.py b/examples/beaker_caching/environment.py
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+"""environment.py
+
+Establish data / cache file paths, and configurations, 
+bootstrap fixture data if necessary.
+
+"""
+import meta, model, fixture_data
+from sqlalchemy import create_engine
+import os
+
+root = "./beaker_data/"
+
+if not os.path.exists(root):
+    raw_input("Will create datafiles in %r.\n"
+                "To reset the cache + database, delete this directory.\n"
+                "Press enter to continue.\n" % root
+                )
+    os.makedirs(root)
+    
+dbfile = os.path.join(root, "beaker_demo.db")
+engine = create_engine('sqlite:///%s' % dbfile, echo=True)
+meta.Session.configure(bind=engine)
+
+# configure the "default" cache region.
+meta.cache_manager.regions['default'] ={
+
+        # using type 'file' to illustrate
+        # serialized persistence.  In reality,
+        # use memcached.   Other backends
+        # are much, much slower.
+        'type':'file',
+        'data_dir':root,
+        'expire':3600,
+        
+        # set start_time to current time
+        # to re-cache everything
+        # upon application startup
+        #'start_time':time.time()
+    }
+
+installed = False
+if not os.path.exists(dbfile):
+    fixture_data.install()
+    installed = True
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