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The other night as I was looking to register a domain name for a new idea, I learned that NehalPatel.com was available, so I snagged it. Now you can read this via TWO URLs!


Back Up and Running!

It started out easy enough…

I wanted a way to mass-import photos from Picasa, with Picasa keywords and captions, so I modified a previous script to do the import. Unfortunately, some of the new Django code and documentation was incompatible with the version I was running.

…so I decided to upgrade…and everything broke

So I took the opportunity to update some of the data models, and migrate the data to the new format. Most of the changes are in the photo album area and the organization of the photo files stored on the server.

Overall, it was an interesting experience in learning about Django


Site Improvements

Latest improvements:

  • You can now go from photo to photo (previous and next) from the photo detail page; you don’t have to go back to the list of photos to go to the next one.
  • See the 5 most recent items I’m sharing from google reader in the sidebar

Upgrade Done

I’m up and running on my new server, running Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon and Django.

The (rather sparse) blog has been migrated over, and now I’m working on getting the photos moved over to the new format.


Upgrade in progress

I’m in the process of rebuilding my server, so www.nehalpatel.net will be running in a virtual machine as I work on the migration. It’ll be up on the re-built server shortly.