[Python] Blogs

[Rob Hudson]

On 1/21/08, Bob Miller <kbob at jogger-egg.com> wrote:
> I've been thinking about starting a coding blog.  Anyone here have any
> experience with the major blog providers?  I anticipate posting
> a lot of code excerpts, so easy and good-looking code blocks, both
> in the article and in comments, are a primary concern.

Cool, I'd love to subscribe to your blog feed.  ;)

Any interesting in hosting your own?  Any interest in learning a bit
of Django in the process?

There are a number of starter blog projects for Django at the moment.
The two that I've looked at a bit more closely and that look pretty
good are:

Blogmaker:
http://code.google.com/p/blogmaker/

Coltrane:
http://code.google.com/p/coltrane-blog/

At this point I'd probably go with Blogmaker since it appears more
complete and actually has documentation.  But I expect great things
from Coltrane since it's one of James Bennett's (ubernostrum) projects
and he's considered a Django expert.  He's waiting until feature
completion before he documents things.

Once you've got a blog set up, it's a quick matter of adding a few
plugins to get Pygments (http://pygments.org/) to code highlight your
source so you have colorful and sexy code snippets, if you wanted to
go that route.  (There are also some Javascript solutions to do this
where the JS searches out "code" tags in your DOM, for example:
http://softwaremaniacs.org/soft/highlight/en/)