Wailly wailly
Well, it looks like I jumped the gun with my last post. Turns out that the shiny media features that WordPress 2.9 has, and which I got so glum about not having in Frabjous have actually been in Frabjous for about a year. And I wrote them. Yes, I fail. True, they’re a bit more [...]
Blog engines stuff and things
A few months back, when I was on a Launchpad Bugs sprint in Vilnius, Tom and Gavin asked me whether I’d thought about open-sourcing the engine that runs grahambinns.com. My answer then was that I’d thought about it but never done it because: It wasn’t very good The code had a lot of grahambinns.com-specific code [...]
If this works
Then this site has finally been updated to be compatible with Django 1.0.2. Let joy be unconfined. Edit: Okay, almost everything worked. Fixed now.
Feeling the WSGI love
This site is now running on Apache + mod_wsgi. Win.
If you’re seeing this…
… then the DNS records have propagated correctly and your RSS feed reader is now slurping from the new grahambinns.com server, which is just hunky dory as far as I’m concerned. I’ve been working on this version of things for a while. Besides a re-skin – which taught me a lot about how I should [...]
Things change
In amongst all the programming (for money), programming (for free), writing a second novel (still not convinced that I'm actually doing that yet but it's a nice journal so I better flaming had be), amateur photography, sleeping, eating and having a life that I seem to be doing at the moment, I'm in the mood [...]
In passing
I have much that I want to blog about but I've had less than eight hours sleep in the last two days and it's making things a bit blurry about now. I will get round to the bit about religion and how it can cause problems in conversation. And now I think I'll shut my [...]
Now with go-faster stripes
Thanks all to those people (two, count them) who let me know about the odd site slowdown. My bad; turns out there was a huge-assed query running on every pageload that really didn't need to be there. Excising that and doing a bit of judicious caching has sped things up considerably. And now, back to [...]
XML-RPC in Django
When I first started thinking about re-writing grahambinns.com in Python using the Django framework, one of the things that I knew I wanted to be able to do was make blog posts (amongst other things) using the MetaWeblog API, which is one of the many zillion XML-RPC blog posting APIs that exist out there in [...]
A new game
I've just discovered a new game to play with Django: creative slugging. Here's how it works: Django's SlugField class provides a means to create a slug field in a database table and allows you to auto-populate an instance based on the contents of another field. In my blog app, I've used the contents of a [...]
Finally
Looks like we're up-and-running. Bon. The DNS propogation took longer than I expected, partly because the update didn't go out until 9:30 GMT, which I'd managed to not notice. Anyway, seems like everything works (for the time being at least), so I'll call it a win. There are still a couple of tweaks that I [...]
If you can see this
Then the transition worked and you're now viewing a post from the all new grahambinns.com. Come have a look around. If you find any bugs, please report them at trac.grahambinns.com/newticket. Cheers, Graham
More Django XML-RPC and credit there for
B.W. McAdams writes to say: Just to point out, there's been code on the Django Wiki for nearly a year to do XML-RPC: http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/XML-RRC You're quite right Brendan, there has, and it was this code that originally inspired me to create the django_xmlrpc app that I posted about the other day. Unfortunately I didn't acknowledge [...]
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