At long last, my site is powered by Django. I've added some new features and trimmed a lot of stuff. Part of these changes are due to a shift in the purpose of this site. Initially it had been designed to showcase some of my projects and help me get a job. I want to now focus more on open source projects and my blog where I plan on doing most of my posting on Django and web development topics.
As I said, part of the changes to the site reflect a change in purpose. The other changes are more about an aesthetic change. I started doing web development full time about a year-and-a-half ago - my former company used PHP/MySQL and ran, in addition to 200 client sites, a city web portal. They had a lot of reusable code, but it was impossible to maintain because each site kept its own version of the reusable bits. There wasn't any version control, either.
After leaving there I was hired by The World Company, and I now work on sites like LJWorld, KUSports, and Lawrence.com. I've been working there for five months, and have been initiated into version control, testing, reusability, code optimization, etc. I wanted my site to conform to the new standards I was learning at work -- my PHP site was very difficult to change -- it worked fine but had many more lines of code than this version of the site and small changes usually turned into big projects.
My homepage now aggregates my latest activity. It pulls in when I post blog entries, upload photos, commit something, post a code snippet, etc. Cooler tagging stuff thanks to django-tagging. OEmbed support (look for this on GitHub soon).
I got rid of a lot of stuff -- my book-list, which I felt added little value to the site -- I figured if I care enough about a book to put it on my site it probably warrants a blog entry. I got rid of the downloads page (how passe, right?). Projects became smaller and simpler. The 'about' page is gone, too.
An apology to the django community aggregator readers for post-bombing the feed! I launched with broken pub_dates on my RSS feed and didn't catch it until the aggregator had picked up all my django tagged posts.
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