Introduction to Pinax
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Pinax is a collection of Django apps that provide common functionality for building websites, like user profiles and notifications, with integrated tools and opinions on technologies like JavaScript and virtual environments. It aims to help developers build sophisticated sites more quickly. While the documentation could be improved and some tests failed, Pinax makes good choices and allows customizing the bundled apps. The presenter would use Pinax for projects that fit its model of a social networking site.
Introduction to Pinax
- 1. Introduction to Pinax Andy McKay Clearwind Consulting @clearwind
- 2. admit a bit of self-interest
- 3. my opinion, likely wrong
- 4. Part I: What is Pinax?
- 5. a collection of django apps
- 6. “Django with a bigger opinion”
- 10. Your site Your site Django Pinax Python Django Python
- 11. Part 2: Create pinax site
- 15. python scripts/pinax-boot.py ~/pinax-env source ~/pinax-env/bin/active
- 16. pinax-admin clone_project social_project ~/social
- 17. basic project includes only profiles and notices openid login user profiles async mail ajax validation and more...
- 18. cms project company cms project holidayhouse database templates photos and thumbnails analytics attachments
- 19. code project avatar wiki threaded comments etc
- 20. intranet project private beta project closed site, invitation only task tracking wiki bookmarks
- 21. sample group project social project profiles, friends photos blogs tribes
- 22. Part 3: Demo
- 24. the $10 million question
- 25. easy to add your own apps
- 26. actually pretty easy but need to read the source
- 27. eg: photos still a bit interwined
- 28. couldn’t get all things working (pebkac)
- 30. customising builtin apps still going to be a challenge
- 31. Part 5:Verdict
- 33. tests didn’t pass (but at least it had them)
- 34. a bit unfocused
- 35. making some good choices
- 36. bright people working on it
- 37. sophisticated site up quickly
- 38. would use it for next project (that fit the mould)
- 39. Fin. Questions? Andy McKay Clearwind Consulting @clearwind