As I announced in a previous post, I plan on switching this website to something Django based early next year. As of today, I am a heck of a lot closer to this goal than I was when I wrote that first post. I’ve been studying the Django framework, learning about models, views, url regular expressions and templates. Though it is quite a bit different from previous forms of web development I’ve learned, it does make quite a bit of sense.
In this post I mentioned some of the apps that I was considering using. I’ve done some experimentation, more reading, etc. and have decided upon the following apps:
- Atompub
- Django Socialblog
- Django Bookmarks
- Django CMS
- Django Notifications
- Django Photologue
- Django Tagging
- Django ThreadedComments
Most of the rest of the work that I need to do involves writing the template files (ugh!). However, the code itself is functioning quite as well at this moment. Feel free to download it. The database is already set up (sqlite3), and the username and password for the super user are both “admin.” There are still a few minor bugs, such as an occasional “ajax-validation” when rendering the admin page. Oddly enough, this only occasionaly happens. Also, I followed the instructions in this installation guide for using tinymce in the CMS, but to no avail. If you happen to spot the reason I’m experiencing these two minor bugs, please leave a comment. Enjoy the code!
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