Week 45 of 2010

flickstr was down for the past few weeks. That was the combined result of me doing an unintended Django upgrade to the server, and not having the time to go back and fix the application to work with the latest version.

Back online now...

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Updated the server to Python 2.6, and ended up updating Django to v1.2.3. Unintentionally.

There are a number of changes that need to be made to an application that was running on Django v0.95 to catch up with 4 years of framework development. A summary:

1. Needed to copy in the new settings.py for the application
2. Update the settings.py - notably, a different format for specifying the database, and an additional field to define - TEMPATE_DIRS
3. Update the model imports - previous version was case insensitive - v1.2.3 is not
4. Update template file names - v0.95 assumed a '.html' suffix - need to specify that explicitly in v1.2.3. Also need up update the 'extends' within the templates to have the '.html' suffix

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