Presentation to BayCHI, April 12, 2011, at PARC in Palo Alto, California.

1. Scot
Hacker
@shacker

8. Make it easy...

10. Digits
•94212 items
•5595 lists
•Avg 17 items per list
•Avg completion ratio: 16%
Most completed goal

11. Zero Tolerance

13. Skydiving Machu Pichu

16. Empty Calories

17. Oembed is a
Miracle

18. Return Traffic

21. Flagged!

23. Most-liked

24. Love

25. Volunteer at ...

26. Pay for a stranger’s groceries

27. Zorb

28. Zentangle

29. Guerilla Gardening

32. Run Over a Snake

33. Witness Paranormal
Activity

34. Kill Someone

35. Punch a Man in the Face

36. Become a 24 hr/day stoner

37. Try flipper pie

38. Get the surgery I need to remove my
scars

39. Have sex on a pool table

40. Unclear on the Concept

41. Item titles need Hoovering

42. Sanitizing Input

43. School of Bucketlist

44. To-Do
•Mobile site
•Mobile apps
•Geolocation
•Facebook
•Badges

45. Code

46. • Tweepy
• The bit.ly API
• Noble character counter
• CSS 3 Gradient Buttons

48. The Bucketlist Item
User Profile
List Item

49. Fully Object Oriented
Item.List.Profile.User.Email

50. MTV (Model, Template, View)
Logic
Match URL (the business
end)
Templates
(limited
logic) Data models

51. Django Admin

52. Object Relational Mapper
SELECT FROM bucket_item WHERE
bucket_item.list_id = bucket_list.id
AND bucket_list.profile_id = bucket_profile.id
AND bucket_profile.user_id = auth_user.id
AND auth_user.username LIKE 'shacker';
OR:
Item.objects.filter(list__profile__user__username='shacker')

53. Database support
• MySQL
• PostgreSQL
• Oracle
• SQLite
• Multi-db support

54. Caching options
• Filesystem
• Database
• Memcached
• Local memory
• Per-site
• Per-view
• Template fragments

55. Batteries included
• Python libs for anything you can think of

56. Clean URLs
• Regex-based URL structures
• Safer, no cruft, encourages RESTfulness

57. Multilingual
• Built-in support for lang detection, delivery

58. Data modeling is fun

59. Re-usable apps
• Somewhat similar to plugins/modules
• Break project into functional bits - abstract!

60. Clean template inheritance

61. Form generation, validation

62. Extensible authentication
• Typical usage built in
• But can tie easily to other systems

63. Comment, RSS systems
• Attach comments to any data model
• Generate RSS feed from any view

64. Very good community
• Sophisticated developers, willing to help
• High-quality devs
• Lists, IRC, blogs...

65. Disadvantages
• Smaller community/less traction
• Get ready to write code
• Availability of developers
• App docs can be opaque

66. Workflow
1. Define data model
2. Get it working in the admin
3. Define a public URL
4. Write view code (business logic)
5. Send objects to templates

67. Cleaning Titles, has_media