http://simonwillison.net/2008-06-24T11:09:25+00:00Simon Willison2008-06-24T11:09:25+00:002008-06-24T11:09:25+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Jun/24/tumblelog/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://ryanberg.net/blog/2008/jun/24/basics-creating-tumblelog-django/">The basics of creating a tumblelog with Django</a></strong></p> Ryan Berg suggests having a StreamItem model that links uses a GenericForeignKey to link to other content types, then using signals to cause a StreamItem to be created for every other model type. I should switch to doing that on this blog: at the moment I have to query three separate tables to build the tumblelog part which results in messy code for ordering and pagination. <p><small></small>Via <a href="http://www.b-list.org/links/2008/jun/24/tumble/">James Bennett</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/contenttypes">contenttypes</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/django">django</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/genericforeignkey">genericforeignkey</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ryan-berg">ryan-berg</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/tumblelog">tumblelog</a></p>