Monday, January 30, 2012

Re: Starting a new Python blog

Have you considered changing the styling of your site? It's a bit
awkward to look at, since it looks like it was only made to fit on a
much smaller screen. Perhaps you could look at Bootstrap, which is a
much more flexible CSS framework?

Katie

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Aaron Cannon
<cannona@fireantproductions.com> wrote:
> For me, Twitter is the new RSS.  Any chance of setting up a feed for
> new content notifications?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Aaron
>
> On 1/30/12, Kevin <kveroneau@gmail.com> wrote:
>> It is good to see some subscribers this early on.  Thank you.  I have
>> rolled out the updates for Tutorials and set the foundation for the
>> Review system by starting a list of packages I frequently use, and
>> hope to later review.  I hope to have the full review system live by
>> the end of this week.
>>
>> The tutorials will also use the package list I built to build a list
>> of dependencies required for the tutorial itself.  I hope this makes
>> it much easier to follow tutorials by knowing which Python packages
>> will be required before hand.  The package list has a summary of the
>> package and a link to the website where it is maintained.  There are
>> currently 2 tutorials available for consumption.  Both are videos I
>> made on YouTube for Rackspace Cloud last year, so if your curious
>> about how Rackspace cloud works, do check them out.
>>
>> There is a separate RSS feed for the tutorials:
>> http://www.pythondiary.com/tutorials.xml
>>
>> I am planning on making a "Digest" RSS Feed which will contain the
>> latest posts from each section, but will also keep the separate feeds
>> there for subscribers who only want the blog, or just tutorials.
>>
>> The site will remain ad-free for the time being, so that requests are
>> quick for end-users.  I made use of the Django caching framework to
>> also increase the response time.  I hope to keep the blog site quick
>> and clean.
>>
>> Enjoy!
>>
>> On Jan 29, 5:06 pm, Mario Gudelj <mario.gud...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Same :)
>>>
>>> On 29 January 2012 19:11, Anler Hernandez Peral <anle...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> > you have one subscriber over here and waiting to see more posts ;)
>>>
>>> > --
>>> > anler
>>>
>>> > On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 9:35 PM, Kevin <kveron...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> >> Hello Everyone,
>>>
>>> >>  For sometime now I have been itching to create a Python blog, and
>>> >> now the fruits of my labor have paid off.  I am ready to release the
>>> >> blog to the public eyes.  At the moment it has 2 main features, a blog
>>> >> portion, and a bookmark system.  Both the blog and the bookmark system
>>> >> offer an RSS Atom feed.  The bookmark system is fully compatible with
>>> >> "Live Bookmarks" to quickly access some of my top Python sites I visit
>>> >> or visited recently which caught my eye.
>>>
>>> >>  The website is called "Python Diary", a rather unique take on a tech
>>> >> blog name.  The site itself has a diary-like theme, and is for the
>>> >> most part very easily to navigate.  The website was completely built
>>> >> using Python, the theme was taken from a wordpress theme website and
>>> >> formatted to work with the Django template system.  The entire backend
>>> >> is written from scratch using a few reusable Django apps, namely,
>>> >> django-tagging, south, and cumulus.
>>>
>>> >>  Now you might be saying, "Oh great, yet another Python blog".  But
>>> >> wait...  I plan on setting this blog apart from the thousands of other
>>> >> blogs in the world with some very unique features.  Features normally
>>> >> found on commercial software blogs, movie and video game blogs is a
>>> >> thorough review system.  I plan on going through many of the available
>>> >> Python packages out there in the wild and basically reviewing them
>>> >> like one would review anything else.  I do not see a dedicated Python
>>> >> website which has reviews of many Python packages available in PyPi.
>>> >> I plan on stating the usual pros and cons of the package, and
>>> >> providing a score.  For example of how this type of review is
>>> >> formatted, take a look at a CNET Review.
>>>
>>> >> My new blog can be found here:http://www.pythondiary.com/
>>>
>>> >>  Tell me what you think of the website in general, and the overall
>>> >> idea for this blog.
>>>
>>> >> If you would like to subscribe to the upcoming content, add this RSS
>>> >> feed to your favorite RSS reader:
>>> >>http://www.pythondiary.com/blog.xml
>>>
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