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Created: Mar, 24 and last updated: Jul, 22

Why this site exists.

Djangozen is build and maintained by Andy McKay of Clearwind Consulting. A long time ago, on a server far far away I ran a website called ZopeZen. At the time I did I lot of Zope. I lived and breathed and even showered with it (there was a someone who gave out soap with Zope on it). Times were good. It was a great site I enjoyed doing and kept vital for several years.

The name was derived from two things.

1. The other main site at the time was Zope Newbies and I wanted a site that wasn't for a newbie.
2. There seemed to exist and idea that to learn Zope you would bang your head against the wall and not get anywhere. Instead you'd get lost in some state and wake up one day with an understanding of it all. I'm not sure I ever did understand it.

Then gradually Zope wasn't so good and I didn't do as much with it. Other jobs came along, ZopeZen didn't get updated that much. So finally it just fell into disuse. For a while some people wanted to keep it going, but it didn't happen. And so it came to pass.

History became legend and legend became myth.

Nowadays I do a lot of Django. I don't have any Django t-shirts or pieces of soap or anything with the Django logo on. I don't have a Django book with my name on it. I have very few packages with my name on them. But:

1. I like Django.
2. I like to write.
3. Occasionally I can explain things so they make sense.
4. I use point 3 to justify doing point 2.

And so here we all are.

How the site is built

Although I like Django, I do also like Plone. I just don't really like developing in Plone, I'm far too stupid and lazy to figure it out these days. But I do like writing content in Plone, it's great for end users.

So this site is currently on WebFaction. The content is sitting in a Virtual Machine on my lovely Mac in my office. I make an ssh tunnel and all the content gets put into a Postgres database over the intertubes. You the visitor interact with a Django site using that Postgres database.

Think of me using a local Plone as my über Django admin interface.

The source for all this available and will be written up when I get around to it.

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