After this website migrated from Plone to Django, the comment spammers found my site more interesting. Instead of five spam comments a year, I suddenly got the same amount per week. Although those comments were never published (more on that later), it did annoy me. By no longer displaying the comment form below the blog entries, the problem of the spam seems to be solved. While this wasn't my goal, it is a nice side effect.

When migrating from Plone to Django, I had problems with editing weblog entries with a dot in the url. Apparently Django doesn't allow dots in a SlugField. Here's how I solved it.

In April Packt published Django 1.1 Testing and Debugging by Karen M. Tracey. After reading it I figured I might as well write a review.

After a comment by Matt Hamilton on Twitter about the lines of code in my website project I listed in my previous weblog entry, I decided to dive in a bit deeper.

This site is now powered by Django instead of Plone. Yes, I've finally made the switch!

The migration also means my RSS feeds have changed. For more information, look at the end of this entry.

I frequently have to send emails from web applications. But before I deploy to a production environment, I want to make sure the mechanism works and the right mails are constructed. Here's two ways to do that.