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James Tauber  
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 More options May 6, 4:34 am
From: James Tauber <jtau...@jtauber.com>
Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 04:34:27 -0400
Local: Tues, May 6 2008 4:34 am
Subject: reusable versus packaged apps and introducing Tabula Rasa
The excellent 42 Topics blog has a post entitled Popularizing Django —  
Or Reusable apps considered harmful

http://42topics.com/blog/2008/05/popularizing-django-or-reusable-apps...

which makes (or attempts to make) the case for packaged apps over  
reusable apps.

He raises some good points, although of course the packaged apps he's  
talking about still use reusable apps so he's not actually talking  
about there being a problem with reusable apps per se, just that there  
should be packaged apps *as well*.

I mention this list in a comment on that post as I'd really like that  
discussion to take place here.

I also, in that comment, mention something I'm working on tentatively  
called Tabula Rasa which is highly relevant to this list.

Basically, the goal of Tabula Rasa is an out-of-the-box website with  
everything *but* the domain-specific functionality.

So far it's just my new django-email-confirmation app tied together  
with password change and reset, login/logout, with the beginnings of a  
tab-style UI. There's a ton more I want to refactor out of my existing  
websites to put into it as well as adding support for OpenID and the  
stuff I'm starting to do for django-friends.

Even if one doesn't use Tabula Rasa as the starting point of a  
website, I'm hoping it will prove very useful for another goal, namely  
a "host" project to develop and tryout reusable apps.

One of the challenges I know I've always had with writing or trying  
out reusable apps is the need for a project to provide the scaffolding.

So Tabula Rasa will hopefully serve that dual purpose.

I hope to have the initial code available later today as well as put  
an instance of Tabula Rasa online.

James


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James Tauber  
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 More options May 6, 5:34 am
From: James Tauber <jtau...@jtauber.com>
Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 05:34:27 -0400
Local: Tues, May 6 2008 5:34 am
Subject: Re: reusable versus packaged apps and introducing Tabula Rasa

On May 6, 2008, at 4:34 AM, James Tauber wrote:

> Basically, the goal of Tabula Rasa is an out-of-the-box website with
> everything *but* the domain-specific functionality.

> So far it's just my new django-email-confirmation app tied together
> with password change and reset, login/logout, with the beginnings of a
> tab-style UI.
[...]
> Even if one doesn't use Tabula Rasa as the starting point of a
> website, I'm hoping it will prove very useful for another goal, namely
> a "host" project to develop and tryout reusable apps.
[...]
> I hope to have the initial code available later today as well as put
> an instance of Tabula Rasa online.

It's now available at

http://code.google.com/p/django-hotclub/

under

trunk/projects/tabularasa

Running instance to come.

James


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Discussion subject changed to "Tabula Rasa is now Pinax" by James Tauber
James Tauber  
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 More options May 10, 3:27 pm
From: James Tauber <jtau...@jtauber.com>
Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 15:27:05 -0400
Local: Sat, May 10 2008 3:27 pm
Subject: Tabula Rasa is now Pinax
I've renamed Tabula Rasa to Pinax

Source is available at

http://code.google.com/p/django-hotclub/

under

trunk/projects/pinax

And a running sample site is available at:

http://pinax.hotcluboffrance.com/

Blog post here:

http://jtauber.com/blog/2008/05/10/introducing_pinax/

James


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Discussion subject changed to "new apps in Pinax" by James Tauber
James Tauber  
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 More options May 13, 6:51 am
From: James Tauber <jtau...@jtauber.com>
Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 06:51:34 -0400
Local: Tues, May 13 2008 6:51 am
Subject: new apps in Pinax
At the suggestion of Doug Napoleone and Jannis Leidel, I've added the  
following apps to Pinax:

  - django-command-extensions
  - django-robots
  - django-databasetemplateloader

For more information about Pinax:

> Source is available at
>    http://code.google.com/p/django-hotclub/

> under
>    trunk/projects/pinax

> And a running sample site is available at:
>    http://pinax.hotcluboffrance.com/

> Blog post here:
>    http://jtauber.com/blog/2008/05/10/introducing_pinax/

James
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