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Quisition Going Django

I've decided I'm going to port my nascent flashcard site Quisition over to Django. I've started playing around with said web framework and, quite frankly, it's amazing.

Equally amazing is the ongoing Django Book and its comment system.

I've pretty much decided to throw away my home-grown web framework efforts and convert to Django. Hopefully I won't regret it :-)

(Needless to say, I plan to use pyjamas for the client-side parts of Quisition)

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Comments (5)

deepak on Nov. 15, 2006:

So Leonardo is dead?

James Tauber on Nov. 15, 2006:

The fate of Leonardo isn't clear to me. I wrote Leonardo at a time when I was restricted to cgi and flat files. I no longer have that restriction.

It would certainly be easier for me to add the features I've always dreamed of Leonardo having if it were built on something like Django. But porting Leonardo to Django would lose most of its existing users (not that it ever had that many) who were drawn to Leonardo because they have the same restrictions that led me to write it in the first place.

One thing is certain: I've given up on Leonardo becoming a popular web framework.

Robert Brewer on Nov. 15, 2006:

Hopefully you won't "throw away" all of it, but rather try to fold the good bits into Django as you are able (which is essentially what I did with my home-grown framework and CherryPy). They get your experience and you get their user base. ;)

Rick Lawson on Nov. 15, 2006:

Hey - thanks for Leonardo though - I am using it on a budget host and it saved me from php ! Don't think your efforts are unappreciated.

Rob T on Jan. 1, 2007:

It's funny you should say this... I'm most of the way through rewriting my bliki to use django.. started learning it a couple of days ago, with this as a project.

My primary reason for using Leonardo in the first place was that it was a bliki, used flatfiles, and of course Python... but I found that it had too steep a learning curve when I wanted to change a couple of minor things... I've wanted to replace it for a while, but was generally too lazy to write my own, and dissatisfied with the alternatives. But Leonardo did 90% of what I wanted, which I greatly appreciated.

With a bit of inspiration and ~200 lines of code plus templates (thanks OSWD), I've got myself a pretty nice bliki running with the light-weight SQLite DB backend.. I'll try to put it online tomorrow.

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Created: Nov. 15, 2006
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Author: jtauber