Removing the Magic

Finally I found time to rework code of step-inside.org to use current (post magic-removal) version of django. I managed to do this in about half a day. There were only two non-straightforward tasks:

• Change database schema and migrate data. Fortunately there is very good overview of changes in Django Wiki
• Initially I have used tagging application from django_stuff library, but now I decided to remove this dependency and implemented my own functionlaity to support tags for blog entries.

After migration I added two new cool features to my blog application: syntax highlighting and sending email for new comments.

I will blog about implementation details in the next posts.

Posted by ksh on June 30, 2006 | 0 comments | django, personal

Java Threads google notebook

Google continues to provide amazing online services. Recently they launched Google Notebook . This service really useful to make various notes, especially during surfing the web.

It also allows to make your notebooks public, i.e. viewable by everybody. I’ve used this feature to record notes about concurrency and thread usage in Java, that I had made while reading Java Threads, 3rd edition book. Here is link to my notebook . I hope that somebody finds it useful.

Posted by ksh on June 7, 2006 | 0 comments | development, java