Calloway introduction

It builds the boring stuff, so you can build the cool stuff Friday, June 25, 2010

Websites are mostly “infrastructure” Unique The fun stuff Features Caching Taxonomies Media Handling The boring stuff Staff Management User Management Server Configuration Friday, June 25, 2010

Web teams have their own ways of doing things Friday, June 25, 2010

Calloway A builder of boring stuff for opinionated developers Friday, June 25, 2010

Principles • Integration without dependency • User interface for content managers is important • Easy customization through overrides and fallbacks • So simple a designer could do it Friday, June 25, 2010

Integration Without Dependency Friday, June 25, 2010

Dynamic Relations Integrate with another app, if available. Or allow the developer to decide. Either way, implementation is still simple. Friday, June 25, 2010

Optional Features Friday, June 25, 2010

Other Add-ons Some applications can simply augment others, without modification Rich Text Editing Positioning of content Friday, June 25, 2010

User Interface for Content Managers is Important Friday, June 25, 2010

You can make your own dashboard modules Friday, June 25, 2010

Menus are easily customized by project Friday, June 25, 2010

We took the edit inline to a new level Friday, June 25, 2010

The quick edit form is specified in admin.py Still a few CSS issues Friday, June 25, 2010

Icon sets are included! Friday, June 25, 2010

A lightbox view of images only makes sense Friday, June 25, 2010

Many-to-Many Generic Relations Friday, June 25, 2010

Allows for different presentations... Friday, June 25, 2010

...of related content Friday, June 25, 2010

Easy customizations through overrides and fallbacks Friday, June 25, 2010

Overriding Settings Calloway settings.py Friday, June 25, 2010

Overriding Settings Calloway settings.py Project settings.py Friday, June 25, 2010

Overriding Settings Calloway settings.py Project settings.py local_settings.py Friday, June 25, 2010

ented tal So simple a designer could do it Friday, June 25, 2010

Pieces of Calloway Project Creation Calloway App start_project.py Internal snippets Template Project Default Templates Default Settings External App References Friday, June 25, 2010

Typical Workflow • Execute • Answer questions • Modify application bundles in • Execute • Execute pip Friday, June 25, 2010

Details • In production, but still a bit alpha • Apache 2.0 license • www.callowayproject.com • github.com/callowayproject Friday, June 25, 2010

More Details • coreyoordt@gmail.com, @coordt • opensource.washingtontimes.com • github.com/coordt • github.com/washingtontimes Friday, June 25, 2010

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Calloway introduction

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