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Blog Updates

Posted by on November 16, 2008.

I implemented a few minor updates to the blog today that I wanted to spend a moment talking about. Redirects I added the django.contrib.redirects app to redirect requests for the old URLs from the Diario app to the new URLs under the Django Basic Blog app. I switched to Basic Blog about a month ago because I liked its structure and simplicity, but I noticed that I was still getting a lot of hits for the old URLs. I didn't realize that I was getting so many visitors from Google searches. Welcome! With the redirects in place, now visitors from Google's index will still get to the right place. Code Highlighting I wanted to implement code highlighting for the blog because I post a lot of code snippets here. The code was formatted simply as white text on a grey background, and it was easy to get lost in the ...

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