Release of reflection-blog

The relfection-blog engine is a django & cloud powered blog engine that targets the app-engine platform. I always wanted to release the source for this application. Today I finally managed to clean out all hard-coded blog-specific data and release the source for this blog on github.

For the impatient: you can grab the code from the github repository.

As I wrote yesterday in Reflection – blogging in the cloud?, the reflection-blog engine has been heavily driven by the idea to reuse available services distributing the load. As a result only the very core is running on app-engine.

To run this blog you will need at least a google app engine account. Furthermore I highly recommend that you get a Feedburner account and burn the emitted feed, as well as a Disqus account to enable comments on your blog.

Other services that can be easily integrated (by editing the user_settings.py) include:

• Analytics website statistics.
• AdSense Advertisement. (see below for an example)
• Add to Any social bookmarking buttons.

Feel free to give it a spin, fork and complain. I’m very interested in getting your feedback! What do you like, and what do you really dislike?