On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 13:50 +0900, Sean Schertell wrote: > I wonder how many of us are writing nearly identical apps at any > given time. For example, I just hired a guy to write a really basic > newsletter app for my project. Now I'm working on a fairly typical > "upcoming events" schedule. And soon I'll be working on a simple > photo gallery that makes thumbnails as you upload, etc.
And I'm now putting the finishing touches on a custom FileBrowseField that allows you to select the file in a popup. This popup has multiple file uploading, and could do well with the thumbnailing. I'm also using nesh's thumbnailer right now. (search the mailing lists for it). the thumbnail template tag works beautifully. > I'd bet > dollars to donuts that many of you have written these apps already. > or soon finish. > Wouldn't Django be that much sexier if it came with an ever-expanding > repository of apps that we could all share with each other? The fact > that apps are modular plug-and-play in Django is *really* cool (Rails > can't do that). So why not leverage the "pluggability" of Django's > app architecture by making a bunch of these apps public? And we'd eventually have apps that build on other apps. Can you smell a zope? > > Am I alone on this? If I created such a repository would anyone use it? No you're not. I definetly +1 you on this. > > Sean > Marc DM --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
