Smoron Goes Live
My best friend growing up was named Ed. I saw him a few month ago and he brought up a crazy idea that he and some others had come up with while camping. A site for for all things smore. A place for people that go dumb at the thought of smores to share recipe ideas and find a collection of smore related goodness.
I decided this would be the perfect opportunity to try my hand at something new. So I dusted off my Python skills and dove head first into the Django pool. I have to say, I’m quite impressed. I’ve been a hard core PHPer for quite a number of years, but have always held fond memories of my short stint as a Python hacker.
Django was a great excuse to play with Python again. Like any framework, there is a good bit of learning curve to go from the overly simplified hello world type app to something real world. Now that I’m done climbing the mountain, I can look back and see it was not too hard a climb and that the mountain was really a hill considering I was relearning a new language at the same time as the framework. It blows my mind at how little code actually had to be written to create the fully functioning site. Apparently its true:
[...] contrast of the PHP and Python communities was pretty good. Having recently dipped my toe into the Python community I would have to agree with the keg party vs study group metaphor. [...]
[...] sounded like a lot of fun so we dug in and out popped Smoron. You can find a few more details in the blog post I put up when it [...]