Re: FeedMagnet: New Django-powered website just launched

2009-12-26 Thread James Matthews
Just as a side recommendation and this is no way the only way to secure your site. You may want to move your login portal to another page then the default /admin page. On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 6:44 PM, OkaMthembo wrote: > Great work, Jason & team. I thought it would be

Re: FeedMagnet: New Django-powered website just launched

2009-12-26 Thread OkaMthembo
Great work, Jason & team. I thought it would be interesting to take a peek at the timeline. Season's greetings to all.. Lloyd On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Jason Ford wrote: > Let's see. We started on the Django version in mid-October...so right > at 2 months from

Re: FeedMagnet: New Django-powered website just launched

2009-12-21 Thread pabloi
Great thanks for the response. I was wondering mostly cause we are using Amazon infrastructure, which is by the way amazing, but is always good to consider alternatives. - Pablo On Dec 17, 6:00 pm, Jason Ford wrote: > Thanks! My comparison of Django and Ruby on Rails was

Re: FeedMagnet: New Django-powered website just launched

2009-12-17 Thread Jason Ford
Thanks! My comparison of Django and Ruby on Rails was definitely more subjective than objective. Although I read several good articles that had more objective metrics to compare Ruby and Python speed, I did not run those kinds of tests myself. My approach was more about gathering the information

Re: FeedMagnet: New Django-powered website just launched

2009-12-17 Thread pabloi
Hi Jason, the site looks very nice. I also found your blog posting regarding Django vs Ruby very interesting, if I may ask, did you make some metrics to determine how faster Python can be over Ruby? Also, this might be a lot to ask but ... what kind of infrastructure do you use to support your

Re: FeedMagnet: New Django-powered website just launched

2009-12-17 Thread Jason Ford
Let's see. We started on the Django version in mid-October...so right at 2 months from first code until now. Luke had used Django on a few projects before this one, but the past two months have been my introduction to Django. I really like it - especially compared with some of the PHP frameworks I

Re: FeedMagnet: New Django-powered website just launched

2009-12-17 Thread OkaMthembo
"Looks" great, that is ^_^ On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:21 AM, OkaMthembo wrote: > Look great, Jason. If i may ask, how long did it take from nought to > finish? > > Lloyd > > > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:18 AM, Jason Ford wrote: > >> We just launched the

Re: FeedMagnet: New Django-powered website just launched

2009-12-17 Thread OkaMthembo
Look great, Jason. If i may ask, how long did it take from nought to finish? Lloyd On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:18 AM, Jason Ford wrote: > We just launched the public beta of FeedMagnet a few minutes ago. It > is a Django-powered web app that helps business harness social

FeedMagnet: New Django-powered website just launched

2009-12-16 Thread Jason Ford
We just launched the public beta of FeedMagnet a few minutes ago. It is a Django-powered web app that helps business harness social media. It is essentially an aggregator that pulls in content from multiple social networks and lets you do things with it - like putting the incoming content back up