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Entries published on May 28, 2007

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Software Update

Back when I first launched this site (about a year ago now), I mentioned that I’d someday release the blog application I’d written to power it. So far I’ve been held up by two large problems:

  1. The application itself was written using an SVN checkout of Django from April of last year, back when the codebase that became the Django 0.95 release was still known as “the magic-removal branch”.
  2. Some features (notably, a couple things I’ve done with comments) relied on hacking the source of Django itself.

So I’ve been on a mission to clean up the code and get it to a point where I wouldn’t be embarrassed to release it; along the way I’ve been purging features that I don’t actually use, and adding new ones based on features added to Django and useful third-party applications released by the community.

These days, there are two major things holding me up:

  1. I have very …

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