Having been tooling around with Django for some months now, primarily
on little projects for my own use, I wanted to write up some of the
things I've learnt. I actually like doing documentation, so I want to
do something useful here. I thought it would be nice to take a couple
of project ideas and produce some tutorial-like documents describing
how to implement them in Django from start to (more or less) finish.
The goal is to avoid comments like this (from the early days of Ruby on
Rails):
"If you don't want to make a to do list, create a recipe manager or
build an online bookstore then there isn't much out there for you.
Basically, ruby on rails seems to be mostly used as a toy language and
every time that I attempt to look online for a description of how to
set up something I get redirected to one of these simplistic tutorials.
There is only so many times that I can read over what is essentially a
'hello world' app before I get frustrated."
(from http://alice.nodelman.net/?p=4)
Since it turns out I am pretty lame at generating interesting ideas, I
would like to canvas the community for some project ideas to cover. The
couple that I have so far are:
- A reimplementation of the Planet aggregators
(www.planetplanet.org)
- A front-end to a distributed tinder-box setup. Reporting build
results that are either pulled from other locations or posted to the
server.
As you can see, neither of these are particularly large scale -- I
don't want to write 1000 pages for one project. I am also avoiding (a)
a blog implementation (done by other people), (b) a comments /
noticeboard (done already), (c) a newspaper-like site (already the
topic of the tutorial shipped with Django).
So what would you like to see? Nothing is too silly to suggest[1]. I'm
not going to promise to take every idea, but whatever I do write will
be put up for free use on the web.
Thanks,
Malcolm
[1] "...except for women's Ice Hockey", if you are a Sports Night fan.
