I finally got around to finishing up my Django based website. It’s pretty inexcusable for a Django developer to have a PHP based blog website. I’m happy that it seems to be snappier and I haven’t don’t anything particular to try to make it fast so that means I can probably make it even speedier by optimizing delivery of static content, and some caching since the blog and some other content doesn’t change that often.

This is also my first post that I’m writing in Restructured Text. I’m starting to write pretty much all of my documentation so hopefully I’ll get used to it sooner or later.

The lifestream on the homepage is my own creation django-lifestream I’ve kind of been developing it within the context of this website so I haven’t been updating the project itself as often as I should. But look for updates as I’ll probably be polishing it up a bit in the coming weeks. It is also my first django application so some of the code and design is kind of crufty. Use with care. The code for the actual website is housed in a separate repository from the lifestream app. It’s located in my homepage repository.

I did implement code highlighting support for blog posts using pygments. It’s taken mostly from Brian Rosner’s blog oebfare. Highlighting is done something like the following:

.. code-block:: python

   some python source code here

There isn’t any preview functionality yet so I will need to do that soon also or else I’ll be publishing some half baked looking blog posts.

Also, I think I got most things but there may be broken links and bugs on the site so if you see one let me know on Twitter.