Djangofriendly (via) Ryan Berg’s attractive new site collecting ratings and reviews for web hosts that support Django. I’m still happily hosted on a bytemark VPS, which isn’t currently listed on the site.
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Djangofriendly (via) Ryan Berg’s attractive new site collecting ratings and reviews for web hosts that support Django. I’m still happily hosted on a bytemark VPS, which isn’t currently listed on the site.
Which deal do you have with Bytemark (I'm guessing you have significant transfer requirements)?
Charles Darke - 26th March 2008 11:22 - #
Thanks for the link! I've added Bytemark to the list.
http://djangofriendly.com/hosts/bytemark/
Ryan Berg - 26th March 2008 16:54 - #
Would love to see OpenID on Django Friendly, Ryan.
Michael, I'm not yet able to figure out how OpenID would integrate with the django-voting library used (each vote is FKd to a User), or the commenting (same FK issue).
Any direction you could give to help out?
Ryan Berg - 27th March 2008 21:08 - #
Ryan: you can still use Django's User model with OpenID. Here's the trick: the first time someone logs in with an OpenID that you haven't seen before, ask them to create an account (username, e-mail address - everything you normally ask for except the password). Then associate that OpenID with their newly created user object.
You can even allow people to associate more than one OpenID with a single account, meaning you can learn more about them because you can sometimes derive useful information from their different OpenIDs (they also have a backup plan in case one of their OpenIDs go down).
Take a look at how I do this on djangopeople.net - I posted most of the code as a branch on the django-openid Google code project.
Thanks for the info Simon. I'll explore OpenID with djangofriendly next chance I get.
Ryan Berg - 28th March 2008 04:25 - #