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Recent Scroll Updates @ 2009-02-22 20:22:42
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My dog killed my old laptop by jumping on it so I decided to do some work on scroll (don't question it). Here are some updates to the code base currently in git:

templates reside in app directories
supports more ping services: Technorati, Google, Weblogs, Syndicate, Feedburner and Icerocket


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Scroll On Ohloh And More @ 2008-12-24 12:25:18
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It's finally there .... I'm just lazy sometimes :-).

Some other things in the pipeline for the next release are:

* added multiple pinging services and moved receiver code into a nicer form
* added google and technorati ping signal catchers
* added gravatar support
* super basic comment support

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Full Featured Django Gravatar Tag @ 2008-12-14 00:21:08
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After looking at the simple implementations others had done, and always disliking when something is only half implemented, I threw together a Django tag that creates full Gravatar url's.

from hashlib import md5

from django import template


# We call it avatar_url instead of gravatar_url so if we change services in the
# future it's just a change of the tag.
@register.simple_tag
def avatar_url(email, size=50, rating='g', default=None):
    """
    Returns a gravatar url.

    Example tag usage: {% avatar user.email 80 "g" %}

    :Parameters:
       - `email`: the email to send to gravatar.
       - `size`: optional YxY size for the image.
       - `rating`: optional rating (g, pg, r, or x) of the image.
       - `default`: optional default image url or hosted image like wavatar.
    """
    # Verify the rating actually is a rating accepted by gravatar
    rating = rating.lower()
    ratings = ['g', 'pg', 'r', 'x']
    if rating not in ratings:
        raise template.TemplateSyntaxError('rating must be %s' % (
            ", ".join(ratings)))
    # Create and return the url
    hash = md5(email).hexdigest()
    url = 'http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/%s?s=%s&r=%s' % (
        hash, size, rating)
    if default:
        url = "%s&d=%s" % (url, default)
    return url


Also see: Django Snippets Post

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Upgraded Blog Software @ 2008-09-28 17:24:24
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I'm now running the latest development HEAD of scroll. If you see any issues please let me know. You may notice code now goes to a development section with listings of stuff I work on instead of just throwing you into a bunch of code repositories.
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Scroll Update @ 2008-01-17 10:19:55
Filed under: Personal  Code  Tech  Scroll 
I did a blog software update late last night. If something odd happens let me know about it! A lot of bugs were fixed ... date urls work properly now, slugs are nicer, more normalized database.
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