Comments on: Banjo Blog nearing 0.1 release

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By: Popeye

Popeye — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 23:01:44 +0000

Bruce, Any progress on Banjo?

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By: Damon Kiesow

Damon Kiesow — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 02:13:19 +0000

Bruce – any ETA on the forthcoming 0.1 release? Looking forward to seeing it.

By: Blueprint CSS AIR Grid Tool

Blueprint CSS AIR Grid Tool — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 06:50:31 +0000

[...] the Blueprint CSS framework. In the process of using it to develop the base template for Banjo, the blog app I’m writing, I realized I need a tool to help me keep page elements lined up on the grid, both vertically and [...]

By: Bruce

Bruce — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:14:25 +0000

Thanks Andy. If you want to help even though you aren’t a Python master, I could use help with building a few starting skins. Actually, I could use help with the default skin right now.

Almost everything else is done, I just need trackbacks and I’m good to release 0.1.

By: Andy C

Andy C — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:57:54 +0000

Strongly agree. I use WordPress and have played about with Drupal, Joomla, MT and Typo. I was taken with the purity of Django’s Admin interface.

I managed to create a minimalist blog by cloning work kindly shared by another author and hacking the CSS to suit. I then migrated all my blog content (articles, posts, comments, categories).

However, I didn’t complete the migration from WordPress to django because I would need anti-spam plugins, pingbacks, WYSIWG editor, improved comment functionality.

No doubt I could clone, enhance or potentially even create such functionality but I’m not a Python hacker.

I think an off the shelf Django blog package is an excellent idea and there would be significant interest from technical bloggers who don’t necessarily know Python.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 18:03:23 +0000

James,

I largely agree. The challenge is in finding the right amount of tradeoff between handled-in-core and handled-via-apps or handled-via-plugins.

For example, despite your excellent work on the comment_utils, it *still* feels like ramming a square peg in the hole. There are just quite a few things I’d like to do or enable with comments and we are pushing up against the limits of how far we can elegantly extend the built-in Django app.

Still, for now, I’m happy to use your comment_utils, but I’m sure you know the feeling I’m talking about. Basically I don’t really want to maintain another whole comment system, but the built in one is just … argh … missing stuff.

By: James Bennett

James Bennett — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 01:06:13 +0000

I think the ease of writing a blog application varies according to what you want. If you want to clone WordPress, then it’s hard. If you want to produce one application which handles all of the functionality, then it’s hard. If you’re comfortable with splitting functionality across multiple apps or with producing something designed to be plugged into a larger project, it’s pretty easy.