New Design
March 23, 2008 - 5:18 PM
Any time I hear about some new framework I usually take a weekend or two and give it a try. See what I like, what I don't, then never touch it again (like Rails). I do this mostly to keep up on things but also to get ideas about how to organize and separate logic in my own code. Well about a month and a half ago I started to play a little with django. After running through the basics I was surprised to find that I didn't actually hate it.
I used to use wordpress for this blog but got tired of it's more "advanced" features or the lack there of. Most specifically the stupid WYSIWYG editor they use for entering content and their shitty upgrade process. So being an actual web programmer myself I knew I could write my own but had always put it off as too time consuming.
Well with django being an easy to use framework, written in python (I am so over php, java, perl, and just about every other language), I decided now was the time to take the plunge. After about 4 weekends of coding I now have a custom built blog software with only the features I want that performs pretty darn well.
Please forgive the overall look, a graphic designer I am not, but I built it from scratch and I think it came out.... ok.
This is still a work in progress, I need to add comments, ping/trackback support, and a few other things. I have been debating if I should put this up on google code, I am not sure if anyone would be interested. Shoot me an email if are.
