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Well, I have a really really basic blogging platform developed for the new site. I’m still working on adding alot of critical features. Basically, as of right now, it just displays my posts and thats all. I’m currently working on a comment system. I would use some of the code that can be found around the interwebs, but I find that this is a really good learning process if I do it on my own. I might just look at other code for reference and to get a good idea of how things work. I may implement some of the modules found elsewhere for other functions. Right now, I just want a ‘almost’ fully home rolled solution. The built in admin interface is the shiznit. Saved me alot of time and allowed me to focus on other concepts. Once I have something decent going I’ll need to figure out how to migrate the posts from here.

I’ll be installing django and mod_python on the server tomorrow and maybe rolling out my ’something like a’ personal CMS.

Lately, I’ve been tinkering with Django, which is a web framework for Python. I’ve been messing with the database API stuff for a few days now and created a small polling app with the tutorials on the Django site. I kind of like this shit and think this is something I can actually get into. Not only am I learning more about Python and Django in the process, but it’s also giving me a chance to understand what goes on behind the scenes with databases. I am using MySQL on a linux box for the database back-end. I will probably play around with the tutorials a little more and then start on a long awaited project. I’ve always wanted to work on a simple CMS type web app, but just couldn’t figure out what platform I wanted to develop on. It seems like there are a few modules for Django that I can build off of. I’ve always thought python would be somewhat useful for me and this will give me a chance to learn some more about it.

If you have any tips or tutorials on anything Django, let me know what’s up.