Re: [App Idea] Django-CDN

2010-01-26 Thread Dj Gilcrease
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Bill Freeman wrote: > Three messages in, and I still don't know what "CDN" stands for, other than > "Canadian", which doesn't seem to fit. As Sam Lai said it is a Content Delivery Network. Django has always recommended you serve your Javascript, Image and CSS file

Re: [App Idea] Django-CDN

2010-01-26 Thread Sam Lai
2010/1/27 Bill Freeman : > Three messages in, and I still don't know what "CDN" stands for, other than > "Canadian", which doesn't seem to fit. Content Distribution Network - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_network Basically, a way of distributing files effectively to a large audien

Re: [App Idea] Django-CDN

2010-01-26 Thread Bill Freeman
Three messages in, and I still don't know what "CDN" stands for, other than "Canadian", which doesn't seem to fit. On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Dj Gilcrease wrote: > libcdn api brainstorm, my intent is not to support all the features of > each cdn but only to support those that would be used

Re: [App Idea] Django-CDN

2010-01-26 Thread Dj Gilcrease
libcdn api brainstorm, my intent is not to support all the features of each cdn but only to support those that would be used by django-cdn for now. This will be a separate project so if other people want to make it more feature rich thats fine by me, I'll add you to the project. class Connection(o

Re: [App Idea] Django-CDN

2010-01-26 Thread Dj Gilcrease
So after looking though the libcloud docs and API it seems to be missing two key features. 1) Ability to upload files to the cloud host 2) Set custom headers for a file That coupled with the fact that most of the providers supported by libcloud offer a separate CDN service with it's own API

[App Idea] Django-CDN

2010-01-24 Thread Dj Gilcrease
Ok so today while randomly surfing the web (StumbleUpon) I came across 4 blog posts in a row about CDNs and scripts people had written for managing them. This gave me the idea to write an automated CDN management tool for django that will automatically optimize and upload new versions of a file to