Thanks a ton Peter. I totally agree that I should just write my own since that is exactly the type of thing django was built to do and I intend on doing so. The reason I ask is that I tend to learn much faster by examining good examples.
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Peter Herndon <tphern...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Feb 4, 2010, at 10:02 AM, Joel Stransky wrote: > > > Hi all, > > I'm brand new to Django/Python but not software development. I just to > say hi and ask for your understanding on my newbish questions. > > I realize Django, when used correctly makes it stupidly easy to create > webblogs but I'm curious as to whats out there as far as django based blog > installs go a la wordpress. > > > > Any input is appreciated. > > > Hi Joel, > > I'm tempted to suggest you write your own blog engine, as that seems to be > the first thing every new-to-Django programmer does, and it will provide a > good learning experience. However, if you are looking for an actual really > good, pre-built blog app, you can't really go wrong with django-mingus ( > http://github.com/montylounge/django-mingus). There are dozens of other > options out there (since, as written above, darn near everyone writes their > own at some point), but django-mingus is both easy to use and provides an > excellent example of both good software engineering and good deployment > practices. > > ---Peter Herndon > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<django-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > -- --Joel Stransky stranskydesign.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
