Pinax Solutions

Pinax (http://pinaxproject.com) is a platform built on top of Django (http://djangoproject.com) for rapidly developing websites. This tutorial/workshop will instruct on Pinax installation, creating projects, leveraging applications, modification of templates, Pinax-specific settings, media handling, deployment, and much more. The goal of the tutorial is to provide the attendees with the solutions to real world obstacles. The presenters are Pinax core developers and will run through lots of small, practical hands-on examples. We will take questions throughout the tutorial.

The first half will cover:

• Introduction
• Pinax Installation
• Projects
• Settings
• Authentication
• Extending profiles
• Changing avatar defaults
• Modification of existing Pinax applications
• Adding your own Django applications
• Modification of templates
• General workshop

The second half:

This part will be a workshop. We'll spend the next half helping people with their personal projects, and will even have a few stock projects we can toss at people that either already are open source or could be released as open source. We won't write your project for you, but we will provide advice, guidance, and some elbow grease in getting things to work. If someone asks for something that we think the rest of the class could benefit from, we'll show them how to do it on the projector and then everyone benefits.