Cerrisian Blog

Pinax is a big ‘ole collection of Django reusable apps packaged into a ‘portal’ or ‘cms’ type website. It supports OpenID, blog posts, twitter posts, messages, groups and profiles. It feels like the Django equivalent to Joomla!. Django has really, drastically matured in the few years that it’s been around. Reusable Django apps are multiplying and are of a general high quality, integration is cake, and templates are much easier to write than modifying PHP code. (Like the templates used in Joomla! or Wordpress)

I’ve really grown to love Inkscape as well. It’s excellent for technical drawings, page layout and logos. I just wish they’d release new versions more often.

Hmm, I really should see what the development version of the GIMP has in its iwarp plugin. In GIMP 2.2, it could definitely use some improvements, I’ve used it a lot for photo retouching, so a larger preview areas would be nice or zoom, etc. And it’d be interesting to do some graphical stuff in C.

I really want to make a user friendly morphing program, as well. Something that might be able to generate nice polygon grids to be put into xmorph or iwarp. It just needs a good UI, I’m pretty sure that xmorph already has the algorithmic code necessary. It should be an interesting GUI project, but first I need to rebuild my Ubuntu box to get KDE working again.

Ryan