Django Tech Blog

The new Django blog system I have been working on is virtually finished, I'm just testing it at the moment. Now I know that by writing my own blog system I will miss out on all the capabilities of a full featured and mature system, such as Wordpress; but my new system -- which I call Django Techblog -- has a few features that Wordpress doesn't, but more importantly, it works just the way I want it to.

One of those new features is the ability to insert syntax highlighted code in to comments, which is very useful for a techy blog! I've created a post on the beta site, and I'd like to invite you to pop over and test the commenting system. I'll delete the comments when I'm satisfied it is working nicely and I can replace www.willmcgugan.com. So feel free to play about with it...

http://beta.willmcgugan.com/2009/2/16/django-techblog-comment-test/

Any comments about the design or general functionality of the blog would also be welcome!

This blog post was posted to It's All Geek to Me on Monday February 16th, 2009 at 8:37PM

5 Responses to "Django Tech Blog"

Daniel Murray

February 17th, 2009, 10:43 a.m.

Hi, it looks great. Will you consider releasing the source code?
Will

February 18th, 2009, 11:36 p.m.

Actually, yes. Its in stealth mode at the moment, till I make sure there are no exploits. But after that I'll release it as open source...
Joe

February 23rd, 2009, 8 p.m.

Are there any non-visible (to us) features to this blog code?

e.g., xmlrpc, support for blog clients, or other features you desired?

– joe
WIll McGugan

February 23rd, 2009, 9:19 p.m.

Joe,

There are a few non-apparent features. Nothing radically different, to be honest, its more that there is a greater degree of flexibility that most blog systems. I was planning to blog about it today, but I spent the last two hours tracking down a stupid bug! :-(
Joe

February 28th, 2009, 7:40 p.m.

Great stuff !