Pinax

In the culture of ancient Greece and Magna Graecia, a pinax (πίναξ) (plural pinakes - πίνακες) or a "board", denotes a votive tablet of painted wood,terracotta, marble or bronze that served as a votive object deposited in a sanctuary or as a memorial affixed within a burial chamber. In daily life pinax might equally denote a wax-covered writing tablet. In Christian contexts, painted icons ("images") are pinakes. In the theatre of ancient Greece, they were colored images either carved out of stone or wood or even made of cloth that were hung in the scene as background. (The term pinacotheca for a picture gallery derives from such usages.)

Marble pinakes were individually carved, but terracotta ones were impressed in molds, and bronze ones might be repeatedly cast from a model from which wax and resin impressions were made, in the technique called lost wax casting. At Locri thousands of carefully buried pinakes have been recovered, most of them from the sanctuary of Persephone or that of Aphrodite.

Pinax (software)

Pinax is an open source platform for rapidly developing websites, based on the Django web application framework, written in Python. and created by James Tauber.

It came out of an effort to further the use of reusable apps, to make a more accessible bundle of the many components already available for Django, and enabling rapid development of different kinds of web sites.

During its initial development, Pinax was used to create a social networking web site, later spun off as Cloud27.

Pinax is influential in the Django community, being used e.g. to build the DjangoCon and PyCon web sites. It could be seen as a competitor to large, open source, content management frameworks such as Drupal and Plone.

Pinax was initially announced with the name Tabula Rasa, but it was changed to Pinax a few days later.

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Pinax (disambiguation)

Pinax may refer to: