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Scribe is a new weblog that runs on Django. We just released it today, and it's available here. Since the last post about it, we've implemented a few more features and cleaned up the code quite a bit. The most significant feature is the new plugin setup that allows for spam-filters, sidebar items, and text-processors to be implemented quickly as plugins.

We hope that this application will be useful to people, and that some plugins and themes might start to pop up.

Update: Renamed release from 1.0b to 0.60.

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As announced at the end of last month, we took it upon ourselves to create a weblog application. The main point was to replace Typo and reduce the large overhead the weblog was creating on the server. We wanted a fully functional weblog, but didn't need all the bells and whistles from Typo. It's pretty much finished now, and it was a lot of fun to work on.

Here are some of the features:

• Spam filtering (with Akismet)
• Easy caching (integrated with Django's caching mechanisms)
• Article tagging
• Article archives
• Multiple user support
• Customizable interface
• Easy to integrate into existing (Django) sites
• Email update for new comments
• Uses Markdown for easy article writing

I'm considering releasing it as another open source project. Let me know if you're interested in using it or helping out with the project.

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I've abstracted Adium's Crash Reporter and modified it a bit. It's pretty nice.

Here's a screenshot:

Check it out here:
svn://fadingred.org/crashreporter/trunk

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A lot of good things have happened recently around here. Senuti 0.29 won both a Playlist Plays of the year award from playlistmag.com as well as an Eddy from the kind folks over at Macworld. If you couldn't guess, I'm extremely excited that Senuti was given these great honors. Right around the same time version 0.29 became the most downloaded version of Senuti with over 100,000 downloads.

So what do you do when things are going well? Make them better! Version 0.30 of Senuti has a lot of changes under the hood that will allow Senuti to do some of the things I've always wanted it to. Underneath of Senuti is now a great little library called libgpod which is the same library at the core of gtkpod for GNU/Linux. This might not mean a lot to many users, but it means a lot to me. There could be a very exciting future for Senuti!

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