The Grand Unifier

December 17, 2010

permalink / printable / comments

Baus.net runs on a simple blogging system called “The Grand Unifier.” I wrote it to learn more about Google App Engine.

Change Log

April 6 2012

Change the default style to include a background image and put content area in a box with rounded corners.

Mar 25 2012

Clean up bootstrap comment styles

Mar 24 2012

Upgrade to Python 2.7

Jan 30 2011

• Add links to link entries in RSS feed
• Properly escape RSS and HTML pages. For instance handle ‘&’ correctly.

Jan 29 2011

• Fix page titles

Jan 10 2011

• Add basic comment support w/ Akismet

Dec 19 2010

• Add basic linklogging support

Dec 18 2010

• Add smartypants support
• Add link to home page in index.html for permalinks

Dec 16 2010

• Remove ManagingEditor from RSS feed. Email address of author not accurately stored.

Dec 14 2010

• Version 1.0

TODO

• Comment moderation
• Twitter update
• View only links

Ideas

Parse Markdown template and look for img tags. If the img isn’t local, then download it, store it in the Picasa API and update the template to point to it. This would create a local cache of all the images referenced on the site automatically.