Dev-Picayune

So just as a bookmark to myself, I wanted to document what all I was working on from a technical perspective.

On the work front, I’ve recently deployed a Django app that folks are just totally loving. It’s actually a hacked together group of scripts to import data and export data to two different legacy systems. In the middle, I use the Django admin stuff to allow folks to maintain the data, and scripts at the beginning and end of the day handle import and export duties.

I finally started hacking around on WordPress themes. I’ve not gotten very far but hopefully in the next week or so, I’ll have new designs for both sites.

Then, with regard to PyCon, I submitted some talk proposals. Not sure I should have bothered, but it seemed like the thing to do. Now I’m just curious to see if any of my proposals are accepted. One of the proposals is for a project I’ve only begun really gathering the pieces for. I’ve resolved that whether the talk is approved or not, I’m going to work away at the project and then I’ll either have a talk or I’ll have a lightning talk to present. I’ll be blogging my way through my progress here, so should have some interesting stuff to post.

I’ve finally gotten tired of my poor little blog getting attacked by spammers. Actually, it was just one in particular and I know I could’ve done some IP blocking or added to the protection scheme on my comments, but rather than working more on Pumpkinvine, I’ve now switched to WordPress. And while it seems like I’m giving up, it’s really so I have the chance to catch my breath while I use all the WordPress plugins to handle the spam for me. But for reference, I ought to package up my most recent version of Pumpkinvine and make it available for folks although it’s really a pretty rough collection of PHP scripts that approximate the same style as blosxom. So why bother creating another system? But it seemed like a good idea at the time. Probably the neatest part of Pumpkinvine was going to be the switchable back-ends so you could choose between text files, SQLite, MySQL or something else by just changing a single setting. Of course, the only back-end I had done was the text files-based core.

Ultimately, I was tired of messing with PHP. I’d like to go with more Python. Django appears to the fastest way to get to having a working blog, but lack of personal free time, and lack of desire to fight with FastCGI and Dreamhost to get up and running, kind of dampened my spirits. So I’ll settle for my clever Python script that I wrote to convert from Pumpkinvine to WordPress and some time that I’ll need to devote to learning how to create WordPress themes.