Blog /New Site! (Well, Most of One Anyway)

October 04, 2010 01:41 +0000  |  Blogger Django Python Software 8

I haz a new site! I've been hacking at this for a few months now in my free time and it's finally in a position where I can replace the old one. Some of the features of the old site aren't here though, in fact this one is rather limited by comparison (no search, no snapshots, etc.) but the underlying code is the usual cleaner, better, faster, more extendable etc. so the site will grow beyond the old one eventually.

So, fun facts about this new version:

  • Written in Python, based on Django.
  • 317133 lines of code
  • Fun libraries used:
    • Flot (for the résumé skillset charts)
  • Neat stuff I added:
    • A new, hideous design!
    • A hierarchical tagging system
    • A custom image resizing library. I couldn't find a use for the other ones out there.
    • The Konami Code. Try it, it's fun :-)
  • Stuff that's coming:
    • Search
    • Mobile image upload (snapshots)
    • The image gallery will be up as soon as the shots are done uploading.

Anyway, if you feel so inclined, please poke around and look for problems. I'll fix them as soon as I can.

Comments

Taavi
4 Oct 2010, 5:22 p.m.  | 

Got RSS? :)

Daniel
4 Oct 2010, 5:30 p.m.  | 

I do indeed! (I should probably add that META tag eh?) In the mean time, it's here: http://danielquinn.org/blog/rss/

noreen
6 Oct 2010, 9:11 a.m.  | 

i see that tavi and you both left a comment, but on your main blog, it doesn't show that there are comments for this particular post.

Daniel
7 Oct 2010, 12:50 a.m.  | 

Heh. Oops. Good catch. I'll try to patch that tonight.

Daniel
8 Oct 2010, 3:19 a.m.  | 

Alright, I think I've fixt it.

Stephen
11 Oct 2010, 5:38 p.m.  | 

Did it break you're old RSS?

Daniel
12 Oct 2010, 10:35 p.m.  | 

Yes and no.

Yes, the URL for my RSS has changed, but no, it won't affect anyone still pointing their readers to the old "rss.php" URL for now since I've aliased the old URL to the new one. Eventually though, I'll remove that alias and add a static page with something like "This feed isn't here anymore. It was moved to..." etc.

Taavi
14 Oct 2010, 5:18 p.m.  | 

Ok, so I guess I had an even OLDER RSS link: /blog/?dt=rss :)

But the new one works nicely! :D

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