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by tomd 13y ago
The Royal College of Art (for whom Wagtail was originally developed) have commissioned an 'archive' feature, which will take a snapshot of the whole site, or a sub-section of it, and export as standalone HTML with all assets. We&#
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by tomd 13y ago
Yes, we focused on Python 2.x support for initial release. I'm afraid we haven't even tried Wagtail on Python 3 yet. Having said that, at Torchbox (where Wagtail originated) we have a general if somewhat vague principle that - as
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by tomd 13y ago
Thank you very much for your thoughtful feedback. We're pleased with the UI but obviously it's not perfect - I've just started using slack.com which is also pretty flat but feels like a new benchmark for usability. I'll
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by tomd 13y ago
Please let us know if you end up using it. We'll post a Wagtail t-shirt to your sister's bakery!
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by tomd 13y ago
Thanks! In case you missed it elsewhere there's a tutorial by Wagtail contributor Serafeim Papastefanos here: https://gist.github.com/tomdyson/8974456 but we're working hard on official docs and a proper scre
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by tomd 13y ago
Thanks for the feedback. It's my fault - I kept asking our video guy to speed it up! We're working on a proper 3 minute walk through right now. It should be ready in the next day or so.
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by tomd 13y ago
I was hoping no-one would ask that :) No: the marketing site ( http://wagtail.io/ ) is a single static HTML page. But we're about to add a blog, so we'll convert the whole thing into a Wagtail site, hopefully next w
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by tomd 13y ago
Thanks! Wagtail is just a collection of apps which can be added to a standard Django project. Serafeim's tutorial demonstrates this: https://gist.github.com/tomdyson/8974456#creating-and-config... Note https:&#x2
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by tomd 13y ago
Developer docs: currently https://github.com/torchbox/wagtaildemo/blob/master/README.m... and this tutorial from contributor Serafeim Papastefanos: https://gist.github.com/tomdyson/8
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by tomd 13y ago
As it happens, the predictive search already returns JSON, but we don't have a general purpose API yet. It's on the list! Pages are just plain Django models under the hood, so Django REST Framework would be a good fit.
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by tomd 13y ago
Yes, absolutely! Our first principle for Wagtail is that it should in no way impede design decisions. LESS is (currently) used for the admin UI, and the compiler / compressor is available to the front-end if you want it, but you can ea
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by tomd 13y ago
See below - there are tests, see https://github.com/torchbox/wagtail/blob/master/wagtail/wagt... and https://github.com/torchbox/wagtail/commit/a77977a31cdfcdf95... b
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by tomd 13y ago
Django CMS definitely has more features than Wagtail (and contributors, and impressive example sites). There's a large grid of CMSs and features at https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/CMSAppsComparison which we ha
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by tomd 13y ago
Yes, sort of. We evaluated the options of sticking with their commercial CMS or switching to a famous open source CMS which we're very familiar with, but we estimated that it would be cheaper to build the site they wanted from scratch
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by tomd 13y ago
We currently need npm for lessc, as part of django-compressor, to compile LESS. We want to reduce the dependencies as much as possible, so we're looking into converting to SASS / SCSS, which has a pure-Python compiler, or simply s
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by tomd 13y ago
> An idea for a content reset, would be to warn the user before it actually happens and/or having a visible countdown widget that tells you when reset happens. Right, that doesn't sound too hard, we'll aim to add that. &gt
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by tomd 13y ago
Thank you! It's named after these lovely little birds which hang round our offices (near Oxford, in the UK) from spring to autumn: https://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/families/pipits.a...
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by tomd 13y ago
The video is intended to pique the interest of CMS choosers with short attention spans... you're right that it's a poor substitute for a real demo, and we'll try to get something up as soon as possible. What's the best p
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by tomd 13y ago
Thanks! Yes, we'll have a live demo soon, and a more in-depth video of the admin functionality even sooner - hopefully in the next few hours. If you have Vagrant and a reasonable internet connection, the easiest way to try out the admi
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Show HN: Wagtail, our new Django CMS
166 points by tomd 13y ago|95 comments
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by tomd 14y ago
I wrote a slightly frivolous one-page app which scrapes National Grid frequency data: http://www.caniturniton.com/ Someone used its API (/api/json) to make a load-sensitive kettle: http://elsmorian.com/Projects/CarbonKettle
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Web agencies should do more than just hand over a set of templates(torchbox.com)
7 points by tomd 14y ago|13 comments
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What garden weeds can teach us about system resilience(gilestv.com)
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Cher Président - Redis, Celery, Django & Nginx(torchboxtech.tumblr.com)
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by tomd 16y ago
I've just added an EU-based job, thanks to a coupon from Evan: http://remote-jobs.com/jobs/30_Drupal_developer
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Collaborative iPad Christmas card(torchbox.com)
5 points by tomd 16y ago|0 comments
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Three ways that smories.com uses Redis(tomdyson.org)
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by tomd 16y ago
There's been some recent progress with Protovis and SVGWeb (a JavaScript + Flash shim for SVG support in Internet Explorer): http://groups.google.com/group/protovis/browse_thread/thread...
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A few key problems in Redis persistence(antirez.com)
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