Scenes from a snowy day

Taken while walking through Wyman park.

I've entered the final stretch on my site relaunch. Coding and templating are probably about 99% done and the project currently stands at about 3500 lines of code, including HTML templates. I'm a big proponent of TDD and belleville comes with an extensive suite of unit tests. Using Ned Batchelder's excellent coverage.py library, I can measure my test coverage, which currently stands at about 86%. That's pretty good as far as I'm concerned, and although I'll probably be able to improve that soon, it won't be before relaunch.

So besides a few sections of the site that need a little styling love, the final remaining task is migrating content from my old blog to this one. As of this post, mazelife.com contains 26 blog posts with 16 comments using 21 distinct tags. That's a depressingly small amount of content that could well be migrated by hand (e.g. copy-and-paste) but I'll probably dump the existing blog content as JSON data, then write a script that serializes it and puts it into the new system.

Got some screenshots up of the redesigned blog (just filled with test data right now):

Take a look at :

• Site homepage
• Tumblelog
• Blog Entry
• Search result

I’ve had a big blog post floating around in the back of my mind about journalism (particularly print) today and the issues which have brought it to the rather unpleasant state in which it now finds itself. I worked for one of the newsweeklies for a couple of years and that's given me a first-hand look into the problem, and I still follow the issue closely. Maybe one day I’ll get around to to writing that post, but in the mean time: a small scene I found rather revealing: