You may have noticed that this site is built with Django. I last built my own blog around 1999 or so, and I’ve mostly used WordPress in the interim. I wanted to roll my own blog again for a few reasons:
- It was time to make the next leap in my programming knowledge, and Django (and, by extension, Python) came highly recommended. I’m finally learning about OOP and MVC (or MTV, as Django interprets it), and I like what I see so far.
- I think I’m a tinkerer (read: control freak) at heart, and it just wasn’t that much fun hacking WordPress. Django lets me set things up exactly the way I want to set them up.
- It was really easy to use Textile in blog posts, which is awesome. I’m a big fan of humane text generators, although I’m not sure everyone is quite as excited about them as I am. (Perhaps that’s why I bought this very domain name?)
I’m still working on getting tagging working, but one thing I can provide tonight is an RSS feed. You’ll find it linked from the sidebar. (It’s actually been around for a while, but I haven’t gotten around to publicizing it until now.)
And please pardon the design. I can do better, and I’ll be tweaking things in the coming weeks. Stay tuned!
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Andrew Hedges Sunday, January 6, 2008 at 9:50 p.m.
I just wrote my own blog software from scratch in bad ol' PHP. It took me about a week of working around the family's schedule to get it up and working. I guess I did it because, like you, I want the control that comes from understanding the whole system. It does only what I want, exactly how I want it to. And, because it lacks cruft, it's fast. Have a gander:
http://andrew.hedges.name/blog/