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I’m busy. Every day I see things I’d love to blog about, comment on, etc. but they usually end up buried as a vague comment in twitter or perhaps a small flickr photo. I’m not sure what’s holding me back from finishing this blog up. I think part of it comes from a rearrangement of interests, from using a django powered blog to coffee roasting. I thought about moving back to wordpress, as it still exists, and copying and pasting my django blog entries wouldn’t be a big deal. So I’m thinking about it. Sure, wordpress is a pretty easy “plug-n-play” blog app with enough features. However, even utilizing Basic Apps blog app is so much more flexible long term, and I could integrate new apps that I have ideas for pretty easily. Perhaps the direction is to have a working blog on wordpress until I actually have django app related items to integrate into it, and build out the blog after I’ve had additional time to work with django. The template language is the easy part, thanks to Ellington and my job. I guess it’s the finding time part I struggle with the most. Time for some goal setting…

EDIT: This post was from when my blog was on a checkout of django trunk pre-django1.0 days

So I just saw Jeff Croft’s link up to the latest django comments refactoring.
I was a little bummed at the fact that

1. I’m eventually going to have to switch my comments application when I do an svn up
2. I’m probably not going to write my own comments application
3. I’m eventually going to have to switch my comments application when I do an svn up

Anyway, I guess its what I deserve for using the latest svn release of django to power my site and developing over 4 plus months.

So I’m starting my coffee application. I’ve got loads of notes in my new moleskine, and for the first time tonight, I think I’ve managed to wrap my head around a lot of it. Such as, “Oh, I don’t need to have separate tables of things that are going to have address1, address2, city, state, country, phone, etc. I just need basic places with place types tied to them.” That would allow me to have a place that is more than one type of place, e.g. a business that is a coffee roaster and a retail coffee house. Why did it take me so long to figure that out? So, as I continue to polish up this blog, which currently looks horrible, and learn more about writing up applications, I think I’m starting to “get it.” — Only now I feel like utilizing Nathan’s basic apps.

I guess we’ll see. I sure could use the nice shortcut, given I’ve got quite a few items to build in, and the profiles would also help immensely.