Still Cracks in Our Foundation

written on Tuesday, 9th September, 2008

Welcome to thefoundation.de, our aggregate blog on media and internet technology. There are still many cracks to fill...

...but in accordance with the recent release of the Django web development framework, we decided to push our site out of the door as well. This blog is much of a spare time effort and all of us have enough other things on our hands, so that even Web 2.0 baseline commodities such as comments, trackback and pingback are still pending.

And although I generally agree with the notion that one should not always reinvent the wheel, we chose to develop this blogging application by ourselves. The main reason is that it is an easy way to get started with Django and thus with one of the more recent MVC frameworks. Another is that we wanted to be able to define relations and interactions among our four journals without limitations. And of course, there are some really nice Django applications that are more easily integrated with your own glue. There is also a more conceptual bonus which might be regarded as a disadvantage by some: Every design decision that has to be done, we have to do. There are lots of defaults in modern publishing applications, leading to a confluence in style and functionality where there could be diversity.

But, for that to happen here we still has some catching up to do. See you then!