It's been a long while since I last updated my old page. Reason was that it was cumbersome even to change small things, since it did not feature a web interface, but required me to login via SSH.

All in all, it was a technically cool solution but rather impractical from a user's point of view. Now, since Django, the Python Web Framework, is getting so much attention recently, I gave it a try at redesigning my old page. In fact, I didn't just want to redesign, but extend it with a blog application.

I started diving into Django without having any idea of Python at all (I do however have several years of experience in PHP and Perl/mod_perl ...