Re: An alternate cry for help

2013-03-25 Thread Bill Freeman
I used pinax for a project several years ago. I did not enjoy it, but maybe it has gotten better. Its focus, as I understood it, was to provide a collection of apps that implemented one group's idea of a full featured social site, and which had been tweaked to work together. The client required

Re: An alternate cry for help

2013-03-24 Thread Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd]
Hi Christos, I cannot comment directly on Pinax as I have never used it before, however I can give some general comments. Asking how to make a social network is the same as asking how to make a game, how to build a car, how to write a book etc.. it *completely* depends on what your end goal is,

An alternate cry for help

2013-03-23 Thread Christos Jonathan Hayward
I wrote earlier asking if someone could correct my ignorance to go from Pinax building blocks to a working site. Since then, I searched Safari, and found five references to Pinax, at http://my.safaribooksonline.com/search?q=Pinax . One is a tangent in a Django book I wrote; three are Python books