Last week I've introduced Django-Ray, I've received a fairly good response to the project and even managed recruit a coding pal to work on it. I've come back later on the progresse made so far on DJango Ray .. Right now I want to introduce Django Defensio.

In reaction to Django Ray Antti Kaihola left the following comment:

Cool: "Bespin ok, but not good enough, so I just coded a better solution in a weekend."

that's what I call Rapid Application Development :)

You think ?

What I did not say is that I had a recurring blog spam problem which forced me to turn off comments for a while.. the only solution everybody seemed to use was Aksimet .. and every tutorials starts by "go open a Wordress account to get your Aksimet key" which I think is completely retarded. I want an antispam because I built a site on django specifically because I hate CMS like Wordpress .. it made no sense to me to depends on Wordpress in anyway to solve my problem.

My Django pride can't take such affront.

So I found a free solution with an open API (Defensio, which totally kick ass by the way) and wrote a django implementation overnight just so I could get and comments on my blog for the Django Ray announcement post .. yeah really.

So here it is:

http://code.google.com/p/django-defensio/

And the good news, this is basically what you need to set it up:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    django_defensio,
)

DEFENSIO_API_KEY = 'your-api-key-here'

It's been up since then and no spam got through until now .. However I got some false positive thought .. so if you use it don't rely 100% on it, because sometimes it let pass a legitimate comments .. nothing's perfect.

As for Django Ray, it also evolved a lot .. I've implemented a layout manager and a lot of features are now functional .. but we're still far from a usable product (I still need help btw!).

So here's the latest screenshot:

You'll notice on the project page that Django Ray now have a logo! I've asked the Django Foundation for the permission to use their logo and I got a reply from Jacob himself:

This is totally fine. Go right ahead, and good luck with the project!

Jacob

Thanks !

I <3 Django :)