Re: Perspective on building a community blog in a short timeframe

2006-07-15 Thread Ian Holsman
maybe http://zyons.com will do what you need (or provide a base for it at least) On 15/07/2006, at 4:06 AM, Joe Murphy wrote: > > Yup, I caught that earlier today, it's a good start. I think the > details that matter here are the timeline, ease-of-use by a > non-technical audience, and hacking

Re: Perspective on building a community blog in a short timeframe

2006-07-14 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 14-Jul-06, at 10:49 PM, Joe Murphy wrote: > Thought I would ask you all what your thoughts were on this -- hacking > an established application to get it to do what I want vs. building an > app from scratch, on a restricted timeline. the second - you have three full weeks, and django was bui

Re: Perspective on building a community blog in a short timeframe

2006-07-14 Thread arthur debert
Hi Joe. Also if you don't fell like reinventing the wheel, you might want to take a look at limodou's multi-user blog app written in django. It's been a while since I haven't played with it, but it's probably worth a look. More info here: http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/browse_frm/th

Re: Perspective on building a community blog in a short timeframe

2006-07-14 Thread Joe Murphy
Ah, thanks for the perspective Julio. We're looking to do more a local test-of-concept, which makes it easy to cut down on the bells / whistles. However, my boss doesn't get angry, he gets stabby. It may be best to play it safe. I'm going to play with Django more this weekend on some other proj

Re: Perspective on building a community blog in a short timeframe

2006-07-14 Thread Julio Nobrega
This might sound a little harsh, but if you need to ask if you can do it in Django, then you shouldn't do it. Not because it is not entirely possible... but because you're not confortable with the framework and its quirks and your productivity on it, yet. Since this is your Real Job, that wil

Re: Perspective on building a community blog in a short timeframe

2006-07-14 Thread Joe Murphy
Yup, I caught that earlier today, it's a good start. I think the details that matter here are the timeline, ease-of-use by a non-technical audience, and hacking a pre-packaged solution vs. building from scratch. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message beca

Re: Perspective on building a community blog in a short timeframe

2006-07-14 Thread Guillermo Fernandez Castellanos
Don't know if this answers your question: http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2006/07/03/django-tips-scaling-application Good luck! G On 7/14/06, Joe Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi y'all, > > This week my boss sprang a new project on me: Build a community blog > app (multiple blogs and multi

Perspective on building a community blog in a short timeframe

2006-07-14 Thread Joe Murphy
Hi y'all, This week my boss sprang a new project on me: Build a community blog app (multiple blogs and multiple users, also with photo- and video-type content integrated and indexed). In three weeks. The original idea was to hack the Multi-User Wordpress to make this work. I've done my time with