hi David. do you have a SVN url? I'd love to replace moinmoin with a django wiki (i don't need much from a wiki, so even a 20 minute one might be ok ;-)
regards Ian On 11/18/05, David Ascher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After watching the TurboGears 20 minute wiki screencast today, I figured I'd > try to build the equivalent code in Django to see what it's like. > > It took me more than 20 minutes, but since this is my first non-tutorial > Django app, I'm ok with that. > > If anyone is interested, I've put it up at: > http://da.textdriven.com:8027/sydney/browser/trunk/wiki/ > > Specifically, I'd love feedback on the views ( > http://da.textdriven.com:8027/sydney/file/trunk/wiki/apps/pages/views.py) > and the template ( > http://da.textdriven.com:8027/sydney/file/trunk/wiki/templates/pages/page.html). > Everything else seems relatively straightforward, although I may be doing > Bad Things with the urls too ( > http://da.textdriven.com:8027/sydney/file/trunk/wiki/urls.py). > > Note that unlike the TurboGears's use of MochiKit to convert JSON to DOM, I > used the trivial ahah.js code from the microformats folks ( > http://www.microformats.org/wiki/rest/ahah) to do the Ajax > operation. Only one line of JS even though there is a maybe a bit more > stuff going over the wire. > > About 70 lines of Python, 23 lines of HTML. > > What I liked about the process: > > * the runserver make interactive work really easy. > * the tracebacks are very helpful > > Stumbling blocks: > * figuring out that I had to do "import > django.contrib.markup.templatetags.markup" to get the > markup filters registered was harder than it should have been. > * understanding that the redirects involved in adding trailing /'s threw > away POST data took me a while to figure out > * I was stumped by the fact that I had to setup another web server to > serve static files. It'd be nice if it was possible to serve static files > with the development server. I'd consider sending in a patch if someone > could throw suggestions my way on what approach would work best (or maybe > it actually _is_ supported, I just didn't find out how!). > > Overall, quite an enjoyable experience! > > --david > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ++61-3-9877-0909 If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough. - Mario Andretti
