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Well, that list of ideas is pretty surreal. Saying that, I have personally really liked Django. The biggest thing going for it is the ease with which you can ge

Well, that list of ideas is pretty surreal. Saying that, I have personally really liked Django. The biggest thing going for it is the ease with which you can get started and make something fairly impressive (I find RoR, in comparison, more intimidating and more magical). Also, the source is very readable (always a plus when you start pushing the limits of your framework). Something like dynamically generating content on a per user basis is a breeze with Django, they have fantastic user and session support straight out of the box. The public site design would also be doable, but probably a lot of work to keep it from being a security disaster. Your AI and Spiders could be separate Python processes, so that would be doable. The Online CAD/drawing stuff I don't have anything on, but you could probably integrate a flash or ajax library to do it without too much trouble. Also Django scales easily with great built in caching support. Feel free to email me any questions. Also, all the things you want can be done in any framework, its just that it'll be far more painful in some than others. I'd focus on looking at frameworks with preexisting libraries or modules you can use to create your functionality instead of having to build it all from scratch.

aresnick 19y ago
"is pretty surreal. . ." --tell me about it =) Frankly, I think it's too many features. We've a prioritized development schedule based on user input, and I expect that we'll find that the site becomes what we want/need at around 1/3-1/2 of these features. That's good to hear, about Django, given the prominence of user/session support in our plans. Public site design is frankly a secondary concern: I think a template system will be more than enough. But, I figured I'd throw it out there. We've already rolled a simple CAD/drawing app via the element, and I expect that to be more than sufficient. Thanks a bunch for your input! I'll be sure to be in contact as we proceed.

aresnick 19y ago

"is pretty surreal. . ." --tell me about it =) Frankly, I think it's too many features. We've a prioritized development schedule based on user input, and I expect that we'll find that the site becomes what we want/need at around 1/3-1/2 of these features. That's good to hear, about Django, given the prominence of user/session support in our plans. Public site design is frankly a secondary concern: I think a template system will be more than enough. But, I figured I'd throw it out there. We've already rolled a simple CAD/drawing app via the element, and I expect that to be more than sufficient. Thanks a bunch for your input! I'll be sure to be in contact as we proceed.