My static porfolio site had gotten woefully out of date in the last two years, so I have been chomping at the bit to rework it to fit where I am now. I realized I would never, ever update it if I didn't use some sort of CMS system, but I was turned off by large bulky out of the box CMS's like Wordpress or Drupal. (Although I have written a custom CMS in PHP, I wasn't up for that sort of job again.)

So my final decision was Django, a framework I had been intending to learn for some time. Whereas Rails felt like it needed me to commit a bunch of conventions to rote memory, Django works exactly the way I would expect it to. I still struggled a bit with learning Python and database design, but the site came together more easily than I expected, and the auto-admin is definitely a blessing.

Expect more content on here soon- now that I'm running a custom CMS/blog I have no excuses!