website python engine (slashdot)

[jtoy]

Thanks for the info, I didn't know about the  squishdot Zope stuff.  I am
sadly disappointed now.  Well, I still want to create a web server engine(BTW,
what is the proper name to call these kind of programs?).  Since slashdot and
other clones are primarily for news, does anyone know of any other kinds of
engines for different html publishing.  For instance, the slashdot code has
implemented the code so that the websites can easily update news content and
add different polls. Do you guys have other ideas for different types of web
sites?  For example 'slashdot like code' for auction sites or stock sites(I
don't want to do either of those 2 because I am not interested in those
things).   It would be impractical for search engines to implement the
slashdot system, so I think you know what I mean, what other kinds of designs
for different kind of web sites could I do?, is what I mean.

Karl Ulbrich wrote:

> SquishDot, which runs on Zope (which is written in Python), is
> already a pretty-well-developed SlashDot clone.
>
> Last I looked, it could use some technology updates to take
> advantage of some of the new frameworks and features available
> in the latest versions of Zope.
>
> Especially with something like Slashdot, understanding the
> Perl code isn't nearly as useful as understanding a model of the
> data you want to work with.
>
> Zope      http://www.zope.org
> Squishdot http://www.squishdot.org
>
> Karl Ulbrich
> """"@""""""".org (turn my name into my email address)
>
> Quoting jtoy (toyboy at toy.eyep.net):
> > Hi,
> >  I was wondering if anyone is interested in helping me write a html
> > website engine (or whatever you call it) based on the slashdot code
> > written in perl that websites such as http://www.deadly.org and
> > http://www.slashdot.org (There are at least 20 other sites).  My main
> > reason for wanting to do this is to get some good hands on experience
> > writing in Python (Im 18 yrs old and new to all programming) and I would
> > like to help the python community grow.  I also see this as a test to
> > see if python can handle such huge loads of code.  This project would
> > probably need people who have some good web/cgi/html/xml developing and
> > python and perl (have perl knowledge so we can understand the slashdot
> > code, not for actually writting perl code)programming knowledge.  I am
> > really serious about this and will start the project even if no one
> > helps, so please make suggestions, comments, and questions via this
> > newsgroup and by email.   Thanks all!

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