Once again, I've been struggling with pagination. It's not that I don't like Django's Paginator object ... it's that ... well, okay, I don't like it. Anyway, I just needed something painfully simple for this site, and Paginator seemed a little like overkill.

So here's my super-simple ...

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I'm in the process of writing my own blog app (project 'belleville'), one that will eventually replace the Wordpress blog that this site is using, and one of the things I need is a templatetag for the sidebar that lists archive dates, grouped by month - it should look ...

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Django's official installation instructions are here:

http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/install/

However, they get a little vague around the section titled "Get your database running".

I followed this post and, aside from a few missing notes, got the Django/MySQL install done in about 15 ...

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