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07 Aug 2013 »
new look!
I've switched to a new look based on Tom Preston-Werner's theme. (Thanks Tom!) Its clean look made an impression when I first saw it; my yearning was further kept alive whenever I browsed blogs with the same look - which is not uncommon, given the popularity of the Jekyll ...
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10 Nov 2010 »
post previews no longer show discus block
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03 Jul 2010 »
improving bloggart regeneration performance with memcache-based memoization
If you've been following my gists and my bloggart fork, then you're probably aware that some time back, I added a simple memcache-based memoizer. I applied to
BlogPostoperations that I thought were computationally expensive - hashing and markup rendering.Of course, you can't call something an optimization ...
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11 Jun 2010 »
disabling feedburner
You'll notice that requests to this blog's feed no longer redirects to Feedburner, as I've decided to do away with it.
Right now, FB doesn't offer meaningful statistics, since readership is negligible. Also, doing 301 redirects outside of the site, as my implementation does, is suboptimal ...
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06 Jun 2010 »
expiring '/1' pages in bloggart
Recently, I suggested a fix for
ListingContentGenerators - instead of setting, say,/tag/foo/1, set only/tag/foo/. I do have some doubts if this should be considered a 'fix'; from the existing code base, it looks like having a/tag/foo/1was pretty much intentional.Anyway, while ...
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05 Jun 2010 »
fixed archive feature
As some of you sharp-eyed readers have noticed - yes, the year-month archive pages were broken. The May one showed June entries, and the June one showed May ones.
Thanks to Nick Johnson for pointing this out.
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03 Jun 2010 »
timezone support in bloggart
I wanted to localize this blog to my timezone - after all, I live here, and not in a UTC region.
But this needed some work. Most GAE python developers (no pun intended) would have noticed the lack of timezone-awareness for datetime properties.
To add timezone-awareness in bloggart, I had to ...
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26 May 2010 »
hide admin page requests from Analytics
This was cute. I was wondering why Analytics was reporting so many page views for my lowly blog - turns out bloggart was including the Analytics JS for
/admin/pages too.Check out the fix here.
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25 May 2010 »
a 2-day bloggart hackathon
Over the past 2 days, I've been adding a few topics branches/features to my bloggart fork.
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rc/atom-last-modified: use the regeneration-time date in the
<updated>field. This is mostly useful for developers hacking theatom.xmltemplate. -
rc/feedburner: integration for Feedburner. Requests to
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rc/atom-last-modified: use the regeneration-time date in the
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22 May 2010 »
support for canonical URLs in bloggart
I was scratching my head on how to do this, now that mod_rewrite (Apache or nginx or otherwise) isn't available.
Some googling threw up this post. Myself, I felt that using
os.environ, although not incorrect, wasn't very pretty.Here's a decorator that uses
webapp.Requestinstead ...
