Spring’s not over yet, but that’s not gonna stop me from sharing the stuff I’ve been doing. Nope. Here it is:
- Launched my largest Django-powered site, Planck Studios. It’s a portfolio site / store for Chicago photographer / video geek Jonathan Johnson. It’s not finished (you should see the to-do list!) but the meat’s there. I’ve been friends with Johnson since the beginning of my Chicago freelancing days, and it’s fun to see him step back into the freelance world himself. He does a lot of HDR and Holga photography, you can check out one of the photo detail views here.
- Built a new commenting system for denverpost.com. We weren’t happy with our comment vendor, so my coworker Doug and I integrated a bulletin-board web app to handle comments on our main site. Although it’s in operation there’s nothing super to look at (yet), so I’ll hold off on linking directly to it.
- Launched the most extensive online poll I’ve ever built. It’s called “Pick the Ticket,” and it’s an online poll in name only. There’s a custom database backend, click-and-drag front-end, and it’s all about who you want to be on the ballots in November ‘08. I put it together with help from the Post’s graphics department and the guidance of the Politics West folk, who are heading the Post’s 2008 election coverage.
- Gave my first professional speech at a professional conference. I spoke about the future of online communities, identity systems and information formats at this year’s Special Librarian Association conference. It was nerve-wracking.
- Implemented a “most-commented” section at denverpost.com. I built the queries to output this information from our commenting system, output it to rss, then got it scraped by FeedDigest (to reduce hits on our projects server).
- Built the heck outta our “most-viewed” section at denverpost.com. When I started work here in Denver we had a real basic most-popular application. In April I started overhauling it, and now the page gives the top 50 most-viewed for the day so far, for the previous hour, it gives the top risers and fallers, and last weekend I added the most popular by section lists. That amounts to a long and cluttered page, so my next task is to create some sub-pages and divvy up this content.
Is that IT? Slacker…
Hey there, is it possible to implement django with Drupal? Basically, make something with Django and let Drupal run it, allow people to log in, etc?
Evan,
I think what you’re talking about is a php front-end and php back-end for Django’s data models. I don’t know how Drupal’s built, but I suspect the work put in modifying it to work with Django might as well be spent building it in Django.
If I were you, I’d post this question to the Django-Users group. They’re good.
-Joe