This weekend, I completed some changes to the Satchmo site. The Django code running the site was all pre 1.0 so I knew there were some tweaks I needed to make to bring it up to 1.1 standards. For the most part, it wasn't too terribly bad. Outside of some minor syntax changes with the admin app, the biggest change was updating comments to the new django code base. I ended up using django-threadedcomments for the new comment functionality. After a bit of tinkering, I did get it up and running and am hopeful that it will be useful for the discussion. The other component that took a lot of time was figuring out how to dump and load all the posts and comments. Through the magic of dumpdata, loaddata and modifying the json files, it seems to have worked out pretty well.

I do apologize for the fact that some of the old posts to the site inadvertanly got picked up on the Django feed and were republished. Unfortunately I also forget to change the site variable to point to satchmoproject.com instead of example.com! D'oh. Sorry about that. Hopefully that won't happen again.

Outside of the basic cleanup and new threaded comments, the newest feature to the site is an enhanced store gallery If you haven't looked at the variety and sophistication of the Satchmo stores in the wild, I highly encourage you to do it. As I've said before, I'm impressed with the quality and individuality of the stores created with Satchmo. If you have a satchmo storefront that isn't on the list, please feel free to submit your store and let the world see what you've done.

Now that I'm back up to speed with Django trunk, I hope to roll out new features to the site to continue to build on the Satchmo community. If you have any ideas or requests for what you'd like to see on the site, please let me know.