In Search of Lost Time

I finally decided to check out one of the many web development frameworks out there. After narrowing my choice to Ruby on Rails or Django I settled on Django as I already knew Python so could get started right away.

As a first project I worked through the Django tutorial adapting the steps there to build a simple blog application. It's been good fun and over breakfast for the last week or so I've managed to hack together some software that can replace Wordpress for my blog. I've made the source code available for anyone who is interested although I imagine there are already many much better apps for blogging out there (Wordpress being one of them).

I have managed to add Akismet, twitter integration, tagging and markdown for comments and posts. That's pretty much everything I was using on Wordpress so the result is good enough for my purposes. I also replaced my generic Wordpress theme with a significantly simpler layout that was within my XHTML and CSS abilities.

Now time to think of the next project that I can work on...

Hello and welcome to my personal weblog. Having just reinstated my DreamHost account I have used the one click install to get Wordpress on here and another instance for Caterina. Everything seems to work quite well and setting up Google Mail for my domain was also effortless. The next task is to install and configure Git and gitweb as unfortunately svn is the only SCM tool with a “one click install” on DreamHost.

Anyway that’s enough for a first post. :)