A new blog engine with Django

My friend from freenode and a Pardus developer Gökmen Görgen did come to me and told that let's write a Django blog application. My reaction was, I have done this too many times. Because I think that in order to learn a framework, its always best to write a blog application because it will push you harder. And then you can develop facebook like, twitter like applications.

What shall be different? And in that moment I thought a blog application, especially designed for developers is something needed so we decided to develop the application. What a developer needs for his or her blog? These are the questions. We have some answers but current blog engines are also meeting those needs. But again, when it comes to what shall be different, I guess you will like it when it is all stable.

It will simply let you publish your content online, use syntax highlighting. It will make your life easier while writing with markdown. It will provide a preview option for your HTML / JS snippets. It will let you write plugins and write your very own theme. Plus something I have not said here. :)

By the way, Django, in my opinion is a good web framework but its best for publishing content. So this is the only and the basic reason why have choosen Django. My preferences were webpy or werkzeug with Jinja2 and SQLAlchemy so that instead of a full-stack ready environment, we do everything ourselves.

We have started developing the application so you can follow it on github.