mon petit blogue sans importance...

updated to django 1.0.2

I finally updated this site to django 1 - 1.0.2, specifically. It took me a while, simply because i was an idiot and the way i customized the comments application so it would use reCAPTCHA to detect non-humans was just retarded. That, and i was lazy.

The proof of that lazyness is that you'll notice the captcha is gone when you try to enter a comment - i didn't put it back in. I mostly did, but then commented it out. There's some basic security stuff in the comments that does try to catch spammer bots. If i find i have spam problems, i'll put it back in, but the right way, which is not by copying the preview view and a bunch of templates from the comments app, and patching them.

You're probably thinking "this guy has maybe 3 visitors on a lucky day - who does he think he is to fear spammers, nobody cares!", but you'd be surprised: i do get them, everyfuckinbody does, even your granny who used GoDaddy's site builder to put up a website last week - she'll get spammers (and don't use GoDaddy, they're Evil). Anyways, spammers totally trashed a wiki i was maintaining, until the day most maintenance had to do with reverting spammer's edits. Oh, and, dude, show some respect: Google Analytics tells me i've got a whopping 7.81 daily visits.

Anyways, if something's odd with the blog, it's probably something i overlooked, please do tell me. As a token gesture of adding features to it, i put in pagination - you'll see some page links in the bottom. Now all i need to do is to make the CSS much nicer, put in email notifications and comments RSS, and some AJAX for commenting, and lots of other little things...

by wiswaud on 13 December 2008
Tags: django, english, geeky, metablogging, spam sucks, web