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First Post on the All New Website

Posted 1 year, 7 months ago
Posted on Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Finally here it is. I hope everyone likes the new design. The entire site is now custom code written by yours truly using the django framework. Django is a web framework written in python that makes web application easy or at least it is supposed to. I have to say that there is quite a steep learning curve but once you learn the django lingo and syntax web development is pretty smooth.

Some may have noticed that imalm.com was down for a few days. I finally got the site done and was putting it up but I was having fcgi problems on my web provider, dreamhost. I will be blogging about my problems and the solution that I found.

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Using Django Signals to Ping Sites on An Update

Posted 1 year, 6 months ago
Posted on Saturday, February 10, 2007

Since I wrote this new blog code using django, I needed a way to ping sites like technorati and ping-o-matic when I write or change an entry. After looking through the documentation I decided that django signals were the way to go. Here is a description of what I did.

First off I created a new table in the blog application to hold the urls of the sites I would like to ping. 

class PingUrl(models.Model):
    ping_url = models.URLField(verify_exists=False)
    blog_url = models.URLField(verify_exists=False)
    blog_name = models.CharField(maxlength=200)
    
    class Admin:
        list_display = ('ping_url','blog_url', 'blog_name')

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