Django, my web frame­work of choice, finally reached 1.0 sta­tus ear­lier this month (although it’s been run­ning enter­prise web­sites for sev­eral years). Mostly it means forward-compatibility with sub­se­quent 1.x releases. So, today I buck­led down and installed 1.0 on my Dreamhost server. It went pretty smoothly except for a few issues with the new com­ments sys­tem, but it only took about 2 hours to rewrite the apps for my two sites (one being my father’s water­color gallery) and get them run­ning with the help of the 1.0 Port­ing Guide pro­vided on the offi­cial Django website.

Check out the new com­ment sys­tem. Now your name can have a URL attached that links to your per­sonal web­site or blog and leave an email address (I won’t give it to any­one, I promise) so that I can respond to com­ments that war­rant a response.

Next up is port­ing over jennipotts.com so that sub­se­quent Click­pop sites are all run­ning the same version.