Empty Thoughts

This morning I got my first glimpse of what will become Cloud27, featuring a sporty design by Greg Newman, and I already like what I see. Cloud27 is a new social network based on Pinax, a Django reference application for reusable applications.

So if there’s Pinax, why Cloud27? Well Pinax is where all development and new ideas happen. Pinax is project intended to provide a starting point for websites. Cloud27 will actually be focussed on building out on the base of Pinax and expanding it into a kick-ass social network application.

To find out a whole lot more about reusable applications and Pinax, I highly recommend a listen to This Week in Django 24, featuring Pinax / Cloud27 founder James Tauber.

I’ll be keeping an eye on Cloud27.

This Week in Django is a weekly podcast about all things Django.

This week Eric Florenzano fills in while Michael is out. We talk to James Tauber about who he is and what Pinax is. A few trunk changes and some community bits.

Please see the Show Notes below for all the pertinent information and links

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Show Notes

Big News (0:25)

We’re back! Apologizes for last week’s cancellation. Michael’s wife gave birth to their 2nd child, Lucas Matthew Trier. Welcome to the world, Lucas!

James Tauber Interview (1:12)

• James Tauber on DjangoPeople.
• His blog

• James is the CTO at US-based startup mValent.
  • Tell us a little about mValent? Is Django involved?

• In 2000, Network World named you one of 50 on power’s edge.
  • What was it for?

• How did you come to find and use Django?
  • Quisition – The Online Flashcard system.
  • habitualist – Make a habit of it.

• You created django-hotclub. What is it?
  • • – Provides a way to handle email confirmation without getting in the way of the user.
    • – Provides many useful commands to your ./manage.py script.
    • – Defines a relationship between two Users and provides utilities and tools around it.
    • – Asynchronous e-mail handling with a do-not send list and more.
    • – Private messaging between users on a site.
    • – Provides a simple way to announce things to all members on a site.
    • – Localizes all datetimes on a site to the user specification.
  • Pinax – Project connecting all reusable apps together to provide a framework to adding your own.

Tracking Trunk (31:51)

• Corrected the loading of templates from eggs, which was broken by the unicode merge. (7565)
• Corrected the caching of objects in reverse OneToOne? relationships. (7561)
• Big glaring warning in docs/flatpages.txt to remind people how response middleware works. (7555)

Community Catchup (35:09)

• – Sleepy, allows you to create a static site by rendering Django templates to HTML.

• Ajax ManyToManyField Widget

Thank You! (39:08)

• Eric Florenzano

• James Tauber

• Special thanks to Brian Rosner for handling the show production this week. You did an awesome job man.