On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:22 PM, Jacob Kaplan-Moss <ja...@jacobian.org> wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Rob Hudson <r...@cogit8.org> wrote: >> * How do people feel about a tutorial that covers a complete site? > > Well, in grand Django tradition, by suggesting this, you've > volunteered to be in charge :) > > But sign me up as an editor (language and code), at least, and I'll > try to help out by writing some sections, too.
Hi Rob, I started to write a reply too, and then realized I was just writing "hell yeah" after each of Jacob's paragraphs. So I decided to stop. :-) Put me down as willing to assist with reviewing and/editing, or just general sanity checking. The only point I though I would elaborate on is the specific example for the tutorial. I agree with Jacob's comment that a pastebin is a bit of an esoteric example. There's also value in diversity - every extra example is one more sample site people can use as a point of reference. Having 2 pastebin examples floating around the community doesn't help much, but having a pastebin and something else adds some value. My immediate reaction was that a blog engine is the natural example. It allows you to expose date-based generic views. You can use contrib.comments. You could show integration with any number of 3rd party apps. You could even demonstrate the transition to Pinax. The problem space is well known and well understood. Plus, write-your-own-blog-engine is a running joke in the Django community. :-) That said, Jacob's bikeshed comment is also completely accurate. You build it, you get to choose. There's also something to be said for having a tutorial that doesn't duplicate the capabilities of any number of existing pluggable applications. Russ %-) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
