January 2006 archive
It's A Boy!
In case you hadn’t heard, Ily is pregnant and due on June 29th. We had The Ultrasound today, and the anatomy was clear, it’s a boy. Isaac has declared that we will name him Jacques. We’re not so sure, but it sounds like a good fetal nickname to us. The full reality of having three little boys running and wrestling around the house is still sinking in. It should be fun, right? :-)
Click on over to the photo album to see Jacques’ first baby pictures.
Posted by Bryan on January 30, 2006 | Filed under: Family News | 3 comments
Website Updates
It’s been a long time, but I’ve rewritten this website to make it a whole lot easier to update and maintain. I’ve added new features, like different news topics, the ability for you to comment on news items, and news feeds (The BBC explains these pretty well actually). I’ve been feeling like I should write more stuff down, so maybe this will help.
Posted by Bryan on January 29, 2006 | Filed under: About This Site Family News Geek | 0 comments
How to Build a Django Powered Blog
I just about started using Wordpress, but I’ve been really
intrigued by this Django
thing, so I decided I’d rather mess around with it than Wordpress and
it’s PHP-ness. Roughly, this is what you need to do to build this
site:
django-admin.py startproject yourproject
add admin to your installed apps in settings.py
python manage.py install admin
python manage.py createsuperuser
svn co http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/djangoproject.com/
copy the blog app from the djangoproject.com project
to your project’s apps directory
add a categories class to models/blog.py
move blog/urls/blog.py to blog/urls.py, rm -rf blog/urls/
add it to your installed apps in settings.py
Add this to your urls:
(r'^', include('murdockfamily.apps.blog.urls')),
Edit the first url in blog/urls.py so the slug regexp
is [\w-]+ instead of just \w+ (by accident I
discovered that the slug field accepts the '-' character,
but the regexp for the slug urls didn’t.
python manage.py install blog
break copyright law:
copy the blog templates from djangoproject.com to yourproject/apps/templates/blog
cp djangoproject.com/django_website/templates/base_weblog.html yourproject/apps/templates/blog
in yourproject/apps/templates/blog:
perl -pi -e 's|(extends )"(base_weblog)"|\1"blog/\2"|' *.html
cp djangoproject.com/django_website/templates/base_2col.html yourproject/apps/templates/blog perl -pi -e 's|(extends )"(base_2col)"|\1"blog/\2"|' *.html
cp djangoproject.com/django_website/templates/base.html yourproject/apps/templates/blog perl -pi -e 's|(extends )"(base)"|\1"blog/\2"|' *.html
add django.contrib.comments to your installed apps
add comments urls and comments_info_dict to your urls
copy comments templates to yourproject/apps/blog/templates/comments/
do the above “base” search and replaces again
in the templates dir, do this:
find . -name "*.html" | xargs perl -pi -e 's|weblog/||'
also, remove "weblog/" from the get_absolute_url method in the blog.py model
python manage.py install comments
feeds:
copy from main.py:
from django.contrib.comments.feeds import LatestFreeCommentsFeed from django_website.apps.blog.feeds import WeblogEntryFeed
to your urls.py, change django_website to yourproject
rename stuff inside blog/feeds.py
add the rss url from main.py
add the feeds dict
kill the community line from the feeds dict
Something is still not working…oh comments rss sort of works, has
example.com in there a lot. Fix this later.
python manage.py runserver
go to http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin and add an entry
go to http://127.0.0.1:8000/
(change the templates before going live with this)
Still Todo:
Further enhancements (oh the fun could never end):
create templates for feeds for all posts and comments so description contains the full text
create feeds for each category
aggregate photo album in some cool way
a url and email field for comments, like wordpress does
ping all the cool blogging sites, like wordpress does
ability to write posts in emacs
format posts with one of those markup languages django seems to include
pingbacks or trackbacks or whatever
Posted by Bryan on January 28, 2006 | Filed under: About This Site Geek | 2 comments
