The Backstory.

You know when you get those ideas that are fueled by the hatred towards and incompetence of something else? Well, that’s how this place was born. Django Plugables is simply a place that aims to bring all of the pluggable applications under one roof. There are so many gems and little-known projects in the world of the pluggable app and this site strives to make them as well known as the essentials. We want to make it easy for you to create.

This site was created, with love, by the duo at Revyver, Bryan and Jen. Bryan did the 80% of the work that made 20% of the difference. Jen did the 20% of the work that made 80% of the difference. :)

Colophon.

This Django joint is essentially a heavily modified and lovingly styled version of the SCM (source control management) element of Jacob Kaplan-Moss’ jellyroll. Here’s his original implementation, where he uses it to keep track of his commits and wiki edits within the Django project.

We also use James Bennett’s django-contact-form for the lovely set of boxes you see to the right. Future features (like tagging and possibly OpenID integration) will obviously use more pluggable apps. A cron script runs every hour, updating all of the repositories with the latest commits.

The design was built using Nathan Smith’s 960.gs CSS grid framework.

The site itself is deployed using mod_python running on Apache 2.2 (port 9000 for hilarity) behind an nginx proxy used to handle all the media. Everything is lovingly cared for on one of Slicehost’s 256slices.

Oh, and we love Safari.