Entries during Jun 2009
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Jun162009
django-adzone Source Uploaded
I have been working on a django advertising application for use in some upcoming projects. Decided to make it openly available to the community. Please note that I found that there is another similair app called django-ads. I have not tested this one, so I dont know what it's like.
The main use case for this application is to allow a user to upload different types of ads, ie, text, banner, flash. These ads are added to a Category, and a Zone. Zones are just a silly name for the different areas on the site which can contain …
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Jun122009
teh_node moved to App Engine
For quite some time I've been bothered by the amount of memory and resources that my teh_node website was taking up on the server. This was mainly because it was running on Plone, and thought Plone is a very strong Content Management Framework, it was a bit overkill for the my needs.
I also wanted to integrate teh_node into my google accounts a bit stronger, so naturally, when I had some free time on Thursday, I decided to re-launch the website on Google App Engine, and also make use of other Google features within the site. The process …
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Jun052009
Spam bots halted with Akismet
Up until the start of this week, I was not really concerned about spam bots finding my site. In my naivity, I believed that my site is small enough to go completely un-noticed by them. I also thought that should any bot find my site, they still have to get past the django forms honeypot.
A couple of days ago, I found that I was very wrong. Luckilly I caught it early, and quickly disabled comments on by blogs and videos, and deleted the spam. Next my search started for a solution. I read up on Django's comment …