Blog /Blogger G5

May 15, 2013 22:20 +0000  |  Blogger Programming 1

So I hope you've noticed by now, but this site has been completely rewritten.

Would you believe that this site is almost 10 years old? I've been running a personal blog since December of 2003. The first few incarnations were written in PHP, and the most recent two were both written in Python, using Django as the framework.

Some notes about this version:

  • Complete markdown support in blog posts and comments. Honestly, I got tired of writing HTML blog posts. The text was getting to be illegible so I wrote this version to make my life easier. Then I added markdown support to the comments so you can make prettier comments. Go ahead, give it a shot :-)
  • A prettier image gallery - The layout is prettier, with larger thumbnails, and some fun layout tricks too. It might be a bit buggy with non-standard image sizes, but I'll work those out.
  • A smarter image gallery - Now supporting multi-upload, and it'll auto-generate the various sizes... but only if it has to. If I want to photoshop some images before I post them, this makes it so much easier.
  • Prettier interface and shiny icons!
  • Expanded projects pages

...and that's about it. You'd think that given the fact that it took me so long to write, that there'd be more to it, but this is it. Well, that and the code is just... better :-) For those who might be interested, here's a list of some of the packages this site is using:

And sadly, I have yet to add a Django Pony anywhere yet. I'll do that soon though. There's also a few kinks to work out with the image uploader, hence the delay in posting my Warsaw/Krakow shots. I'll get to them soon enough though.

Anyway, if you haven't already, please poke through the site and let me know if you run into any problems. Now that I've made it (slightly) easier to post, I hope to be writing more in the future.

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noreen
16 May 2013, 8:16 a.m.  | 

hullo you appear to be working now! :D

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