The Runcible Blog

Since Ned put the smack down on the web framework zealots, and Antonio chimed in about the intangible benefits of working with a "fringe" framework/language, I thought I'd add my 2 rupees to the discussion on this whole web-development thang. Having spent a year working on a Struts application (and evaluating several other Java frameworks) at my last gig, the difference between those platforms and Django (or hey, even Ruby On Rails) means the difference between being able to ship ......
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It's pretty close to official: I'm going to be working at Tabblo a week from Monday! Needless to say, I'm quite excited, but considering it's 11:20 on a Friday night after a long short week, I won't go into the details of my excitement about the future. I'll say more later, but in the meantime, chickety-check me out on Tabblo. Then, try it out for yourself!...
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Hey, I just added a search function. It took only about 5 minutes to whip together thanks to Django! Try it out!:...
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Death to Categories! Long live Tags! I had been thinking of adding something like those new-fangled "tags" that every website seems to have these days because the current category paradigm seems too static. Well, I just implemented tags after some inspiration from Ross Poulton's post about tags with Django. I took it a step further and tried my hand at "multi-tags" like IMDB's keyword search. I don't think I'll spend too much time refining the tag selection, but it has ......
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I've had some more time to continue working with Django and just updated my RSS feed using the new Syndication Framework (which is very clean, might I add). I'm also working on a very simple gallery application to use for my portfolio. The current Gallery works, but it's gotten too cluttered with miscellaneous stuff. I wouldn't put a link to that site on my resume, for instance. Instead, I'll have a separate area to show my "best" photos, soon. I've ......
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I rewrote this blog using Django, a quickly-growing web framework written in Python. By using Generic Views I was able to cut out most of the code required to display simple blog entries. The only parts I had to implement were the category pages and the archives which just displays the years. Old links should still work or be redirected, but some of the image links are broken. I hope to fix those soon. I plan on writing a simple-yet-stylish ......
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