Django Blog Engine (Python, 2008)

Version: 1.0
Author: Adrian Kosmaczewski
Date: January 11th, 2008
Programming Languages: Python
Tools: Django Framework, Python, SQLite
Platforms: Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard”, Kubuntu Linux 7.10, Windows XP SP 2
Licence: Creative Commons Public Domain

This application is a simple blog application, done as a learning exercise of both Python and the Django Framework.

Features:

• It supports the creation of posts, comments, and tagging.
• RSS feed export, in all the native formats supported by Django (Atom, RSS 2.0 and RSS 0.91)
• Data storage in a SQLite database.
• “Nice URLs” support, similar to WordPress.
• Posts can be written using Textile.
• Logged users get a special comment form, with only a “body” area.

Requirements

This project requires the ‘textile’ egg (install using “easy_install textile”) to be used with the ‘django.contrib.markup’ application.

Browser support

The application has only been tested with Safari 3, Opera 9, Internet Explorer 6, Konqueror 3.5 and Firefox 2, on Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard”, Kubuntu Linux 7.10 and Windows XP SP 2. The templates are configured to output standard XHTML 1.0.

Installation

1. Clone this git repository: git clone git://github.com/akosma/django-blog-engine.git
2. Open a Terminal session and cd django-blog-engine
3. Run the following command to export a recent Django version in that folder: svn export http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/tags/releases/1.0.2/django
4. cd blog
5. python manage.py runserver
6. Browse to http://localhost:8000/.
7. You can log in the Django admin application at http://localhost:8000/admin using the username “adrian” and password “adrian”.

References

• Django Book
• Django documentation
• Django logging class
• Python string concatenation
• Serving static content with Django
• Starting with Django in Leopard
• Textile Reference

More information about this application.