So I was following up on a talk I had seen at djangocon this year, and ran across this site by Cal Henderson – http://www.iamcal.com/
The interesting part about this site is that he has about 10-12 different elements on his front page sharing information about what was going on, etc. in his life. Â I am interested in implementing something similar, but couldn’t find any reference to a cms that he might be using.
To give a little background, I’ve followed a few links off his site, including the one to the designer of the site, which also indicates no cms that they use either. Â It seems I may be out of luck, but wondered if anyone else had seen a cms similar or that might be capable of such features without major modifications??
I’ve looked at drupal and joomla and am more interested in something a little more like concrete5 or django-cms, but haven’t settled on anything. So LazyWeb, do you think you can help me?
I think that sort of thing is called a lifestream.
Just a guess, but if he’s running a Django site he might be using one of these (or something custom):
http://code.google.com/p/django-lifefeed/
http://code.google.com/p/django-lifestream/
Or there are few WordPress plugins:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/lifestream
Or sometimes people just use Yahoo! Pipes to grab all their own RSS feeds and output that.
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Did you try the most obvious: Ask Cal?
the designer of the site? but i designed it myself
the cms is a custom job. sorry to disappoint :)
My guess its built from his book on scalable websites :). Has he answered an email on what he is using? [The source pages of the website are scrubbed of information too.. which makes it hard to guess.]
use concrete5, it rocks. ;)
-frz