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Video and image sitemaps in Django
I recently added a sitemap to a site with many images and videos. Having the media files in the sitemap helps search engines to index them. I hadn't done this with Django before, so here are some notes. If you're not familiar with sitemaps in Django check out the official ... more
What happened to bitcoin-24.com?
Get more updates: Weekly Randomly from the bitcoin24 lawyer or semi-official tweets. Anything to add? Please leave a comment or contact me. Donations: 1NG8BfDzequeiCDewn7v2AF4FcBKGxzKkH No BTC? 2013-05-16 New statement from the lawyer The new announcement (English, German) basically repeats what we already know. We have to wait longer: Regarding fiat ... more
Work for Bitcoins
That's right. I have decided to work for bitcoin as well as for cash. Due to the high volatility I would prefer small tasks that can be completed in a day or two. But bigger projects might work as well, just contact me for details. I had been curious about ... more
Django Webmaster Verification
Today I have released version 0.2.1 of django-webmaster-verification. I never took the time to write a post about it, so here you go. The Django application helps to quickly register with various webmaster tools like: Google Webmaster Tools Bing Webmaster Tools Yandex Webmaster Tools Majestic SEO Alexa These tools can ... more
Another scoop of Django testing
Two scoops of Django is a good book, and I recommend it to anyone who's working with Django. So when I finally got around to using travis-ci I turned to the packaging and testing chapters, but couldn't find anything that would really help me. Travis is a continuous integration service ... more
Values instance has no attribute 'default_reference_context'
I was just editing some reStructuredText content for my website when Django threw a strange error at me. Values instance has no attribute 'default_reference_context' What was really bizarre is that exactly the same rst content could be published as HTML just fine in a test script: from docutils.core import publish_parts ... more
At last - fixed RSS feeds
It's been more than two years that this site has been running on Django, but I had never gotten around to making really good RSS feeds. Some entries didn't contain the relevant content, others didn't format it properly, etc. Fortunately I have learned enough about Django by now that it ... more