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Category feeds are now in effect, comment twittering
I've been adding features to my blog as I've wanted them. Since I wrote this whole thing in Django, it's been fun, enlightening, and helpful to go through this process. I was already pretty good with Django prior, but the experience of building this site and adding on new features almost every day have really tightened up my skills and depth of knowledge of the framework. Two interesting things I've added in the past few days are: Site sends a Twitter direct message when someone leaves a comment. This is really cool and has already been helpful. I get a ...
You want comments? You got em!
While compiling my 2007 year-end posting statistics post, I made an observation that I had built a nice following of commeters. My posting volume had gone down, my content length had increased, and with that, I saw an explosion in the number of people commenting on my blog. So with that information under my belt, I've finally got comments up and running here on the site. I'm using the largely undocumented (and unconverted to newforms) django.contrib.comments. Trust me, the built-in commenting that comes with Django is feature-packed and super-cool, but it could really use some documentation. However, I assume this ...
Posted on: 2008 January 01
Filed under: Django, Site news, Technology
The technology behind this new site
I thought it would be useful for nerds, and specifically Django nerds, who might read this post to hear about how I threw it all together in a span of under a week. Most of the Django applications I'm using are detailed on my colophon page, but I'll reproduce it here and add more commentary. django-basic-blog by Nathan Borror. Provides simple Post and Category data models and helpful views. django-tagging by Jonathan Buchanan & Jacob Kaplan-Moss. Provides excellent data models, helpful model fields, template tags, generic views, and a tag manager to add tags to any of your Django models. ...
by Clint Ecker
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