Jannis Leidel

Just a short message concerning the Google Summer of Code.

I’m proud to report that the Google Summer of Code student Thejaswi Puthraya that I had the privilege to mentor this year, not only finished his task successfully but also did that in time for Django 1.0!

Welcome to the new jannisleidel.com, after finally being migrated from Wordpress to Django. I’m now a happy user of James Bennett’s Coltrane app. It provides the features I used in the old Wordpress installation and is simple enough to be hacked in the spare time. One thing though was new to me and I want to share this little piece of usefulness with you.

By default Coltrane uses a URL scheme for the weblog entries like:

r'^(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>\w{3})/(?P<day>\d{2})/(?P<slug>[-\w]+)/$'

If you want to change that URL scheme without modifying Coltrane you can fairly easily override the provided URLconf with your own. For example I’m using the following regular expression here:

r'^(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>\d{2})/(?P<slug>[-\w]+)/$'

But this is only half the battle. Furtunately, Coltrane uses absolute URLs for the entry models. And this is when a special setting needs to be brought into play: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES—“A dictionary mapping “app_label.model_name” strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL.”

Combined with the reverse() utility it’s a nice, small solution, you can put in the settings.py file of your site:

from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse
ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
    'coltrane.entry': lambda o: reverse('coltrane_entry_detail', kwargs={
                                            'year': o.pub_date.strftime('%Y'),
                                            'month': o.pub_date.strftime('%m'),
                                            'slug': o.slug }),
}

Since the Django Sprint at Europython was great fun, there was some discussion in the django-de.org community about a local Django Sprint in Berlin.

We decided to accompany the Beta2 Sprint in Lawrence on Friday, August 08, 2008 and are happy to be able to continue on Saturday, August 09, 2008.

The location of the sprint is the Hasso Plattner Institute at the University of Potsdam, located in the south west of Berlin (How to find it).

We have a reservation for a room at the main building from Friday afternoon (2 p.m.) to Saturday evening, thanks to the Chair of Internet-Technologies and Systems.

So if you are interested, please add your name to the sprint wiki page.

See you there!