After a couple of weeks of sometimes hectic hacking, our local birdwatchers site http://www.birders-hf.de/ranking/ has finally gone online.

Thanks to the Python Django web framework,  the site was mostly a joy to develop, and during the times it wasn’t, it was mostly due to myself being unable to wrap my head around some of the more esoteric Django concepts.

For now, I’ll just sit back and watch the webserver access log roll by, always a great moment when you’re going to find out (or not, for that matter ;-)) wether people actually find a site you’ve created useful.

Also, I finally ordered the Django book so I’m looking forward to reading that and having a great many “aha, I wish I’d taken the time to read that!” moments.

If you’re interested in using the site for your own local county ranking, feel free to get in touch at the email address given at the site or by commenting here. Be warned though, I’m not making use of any l18n features that Django offers yet, so adapting the site to another language may imply a bit of work.

Uwe