Welcome to my site! I'm a web developer in Lawrence, KS, and I like blogging about Django stuff. Below you can check out what I've been up to lately.

Object-oriented programming stresses the idea of code reuse, through concepts like inheritance and polymorphism. View programming in django can sometimes get a boost from class-based design.

Fixes in github api lib, thanks darkpixel. Added optional setting to fetch blob (thanks again!). Fixture and stub of test - more to come.

Filter out expired articles in the view.

Added a way to expire articles a number of days after they've been added. Fixed dupe-checking on articles to match guid/feed OR title.

Fixed the github_hook view - now looks at POST['payload'] instead of POST

Solved problem 63

How to implement self-referencing many-to-many relationships in Django. Example use cases are modeling asymmetrical following (a-la twitter) or symmetrical friendship (a-la facebook).

Django uses several types of registration patterns for some of its most notable features. This entry looks at the way django implements its different types of registries.

django-github is a Django app for integration with GitHub.