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Pinax Tutorial Building a flash mob dance organizer site
Who are we? James Tauber Daniel Greenfeld Pinax founder Pinax
Core Developer Discoverer of the D^Jango Code NASA contractor
Tutorial Prerequisites 1. Basic understanding of Django 2.
Basic understanding of Python
Flash mob dance site requirements
Flash mob dance site requirements Lets us organize big flash
mob dance events
Flash mob dance site requirements Lets us organize big flash
mob dance events We want groups so people can participate in
dances
Flash mob dance site requirements Lets us organize big flash
mob dance events We want groups so people can participate in dances
Need to have twitter clone so we can communicate locally without
giving it away to everyone. We want updates inside dances.
What is Pinax?
What is Pinax? Django with an opinion
What is Pinax? Django with an opinion By integrating numerous
reusable Django apps to take care of the things that many sites
have in common, it lets you focus on what makes your site
different.
What is Pinax? Django with an opinion By integrating numerous
reusable Django apps to take care of the things that many sites
have in common, it lets you focus on what makes your site
different. from magic import pony import pinax @pinax def
django(ideas): return pony.magic(ideas)
Step 1: Install Pinax Taunting the demo gods
http://downloads.pinaxproject. com/Pinax-0.7rc1-bundle.tar.gz
Virtualenv sidestep Authored by Ian Bicking Lets you pin
releases in a safe, homogeneous environment
Flash Mob Project Hey, its just a Django project! What apps do
we need?
Flash Mob Project Hey, its just a Django project! What apps do
we need? Dances Wall
Flash Mob Project Hey, its just a Django project! What apps do
we need? Dances pip install pinax-dances Wall
Flash Mob Project Hey, its just a Django project! What apps do
we need? Dances pip install pinax-dances Wall pip install
pinax-wall
Step 3: Changing the logo
But Pinax doesn't do what I need!
But Pinax doesn't do what I need! I want the Wall description
field use a rich text editor!
But Pinax doesn't do what I need! I want the Dance description
field use a rich text editor! I could add a new forms widget.
But Pinax doesn't do what I need! I want the Dance description
field use a rich text editor! I could add a new forms widge. But I
don't want to fork the Dance (or groups, tribes, projects, etc)
application because I want easy upgrades.
But Pinax doesn't do what I need! I want the profiles About Me
field use a rich text editor I could add a new forms widget But I
don't want to fork the Dance (or groups, tribes, projects, etc)
application because I want easy upgrades. I'll do it entirely in
the templates using django-wysiwyg!
Step 4: Adding outside app django-wysiwyg
Adding an outside app pip install django-wysiwyg INSTALLED_APPS
= ( ... 'django_wysiwyg', ) -- or --
$('body').addClass('yui-skin-sam')