jmoiron.net

I mentioned before that I had splintered off my blog developing efforts into a project I named saudade. The first somewhat releasable ball of code is now finished and in operation at jmoiron.net. This is a (thusfar modest) blog engine utilizing Django and focusing on levereging existing technologies, best practices, and a slim codebase. Some features saudade has over my previous software:

Saudade Specific

• saudade is developed with deployability in mind
• auto-summary support utilizing the BeautifulSoup html/sgml parsing library
• improved rss feeds
• more reliance on generic views (reduction in code size and complexity)
• ditch custom flatpages for django.contrib.flatpages (reduction in code size)
• improved blog navigation
  • navigate by date or page/list view

STILL PLANNED:

• generic callendar widget for linking information
• todo list user interface enhancements
  • removed 'created' from editable fields

I need to work with the template system and get the template loader working so that I can have a drop in system before I release a tarball, but development is coming along well enough. I'm officially done with the todo list for now, even though there are some enhancements planned, and turning my full focus to the gallery application. First up is to work w/ ceache on his pyexif project to get the parsing and table creation working for at least Canon cameras. After we have an idea of how that will work, things can proceed!