This is i darn so coo l!!! Man you guys are killing me with this stuff... This is such a coincidence; - Am i django developer - i love it - and am a fanatic of Astronomy... so i get to learn both topics which are so dear to my heart, all in ONE portal
i have no words ... thanks. Gath On Apr 23, 5:07 pm, larsholm <[email protected]> wrote: > Not at all :-) > > For the site we use: > feedparser (nearly obviously for the feed parsing - it's unbeatable) > beautifulsoup > django-command-extensions > django-batchadmin (which I'm very happy to see makes it into Django > 1.1) > django-mptt (for our menu system) > djangodblog > PIL > threadpool > SSLMiddleware > > For deployment we're using a combination of Paver (with some of our > own add-ons), Fabric and virtualenv - all of it works really well > together and makes deployment so much easier. > > Besides that we have a growing common code base for all our sites, > that contains all the base components you just need in a site (menus + > breadcrumbs generation, a more flexible flatpages app with TinyMCE > editor, searching etc). Most of our code base, I'd like to release as > open source, but it's quite a big task for the initial stuff we did, > which is basically where it gets stuck. The new applications we are > doing, we have much greater focus on making them open source, so > hopefully you should see small apps coming from us in a not so distant > future (ESO is after all funded with tax money ;-). > > Cheers, > Lars > > On Apr 23, 3:34 pm, Zain Memon <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Cool! Mind sharing the names of any open source django apps you used? > > > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 6:09 AM, larsholm <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Dear all, > > > > Allow me to advertise for our new Django based site: > > >http://www.portaltotheuniverse.org > > > > Keeping up-to-date with cutting-edge astronomy and space science > > > breakthroughs has just become that much easier, thanks to the Portal > > > To The Universe, the latest Cornerstone project of the International > > > Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009). > > > > On the tech side it basically boils down to a content-specific feed > > > aggregator with a number of important add-ons: > > > - human moderation to feature high quality content. > > > - embargoed press releases for journalists with login (works in much > > > the same way as when journalists can be invited to watch new movies a > > > day before everybody else). > > > - the RSS crawler is fast and updated very often to keep up-to-date > > > with the news development during the day. > > > > This is our third major Django-based website we have done here at ESO > > > - European Southern Observatory (located in Munich, Germany), and we > > > naturally have more websites with astronomy content in the pipeline. > > > > Thanks for viewing! > > > > Lars Holm Nielsen <[email protected]> > > > ESO - European Southern Observatory --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
