Posts About Trailmapping

My Lightning Talk from DjangoCon 2008

September 18, 2008 | django, presentation, trailmapping | 2 comments

DjangoCon was an amazing conference all around. I met some great people and learned a lot. I also had the opportunity to get up on stage and present some of the things I’ve been working on here. I was really nervous and after seeing how well prepared the presenters before me were, I had doubts about my plan to go on stage and wing it. I spoke about Trailmapping and Gondola the CMS I’ve been working on.

Afterwards, I was blown away by the number of compliments I received. A few people told me they thought my talk was the best of the bunch which was really encouraging. To everyone that reached out, all I can say is thanks; it meant a lot. I’m inspired to carve out some more time to blog about the things I’m working on, specifically Django admin customization and jQuery.

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Building a Community Site with Django in 40 Hours or Less

July 20, 2008 | django, trailmapping | 10 comments

All the recent hub bub about 1 week and 1 day application development, motivated me to see how quickly I could launch a website for myself. I, like many developers, struggle with building and releasing personal sites. Ask a web developer and they’re likely to tell you about a couple of sites they started and never finished. Time is always an issue, but the bigger problems are striving for perfection prior to launch and always holding out for that one “killer” feature. As time goes on, interest in the project wanes until it finally gets shelved.

The Plan

Prior to development, I set a few goals for myself:

  1. Launching quickly was priority number one. I set a goal of 3 days.
  2. Use as much existing code as possible. Even if it wasn’t a perfect fit, if it was functional, use it.
  3. Optimize later.
  4. Stop scope/feature creep at ...

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