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...to a Fedora installation near you. Yes, that's true. TypePad Motion, that got announced earlier this month, is now in Fedora 11 and 12, as well as in EPEL 5 (testing for now). Basically, it's a microblogging platform writting in...

Sebastian Dziallas ...to a Fedora installation near you. Yes, that's true. TypePad Motion, that got announced earlier this month, is now in Fedora 11 and 12, as well as in EPEL 5 (testing for now). Basically, it's a microblogging platform writting in Python and based on Django. And that's how it looks like. Want to give it a try? yum install typepad-motion does the trick.

Then you can directly run django-admin typepadproject mymotion --settings=motion.settings which will give you a folder called mymotion in your current directory. Switching to this folder and running python manage.py runserver should already get you an idea whether it's working. Entering http://127.0.0.1:8000 in your webbrowser is also a good idea, in case you're trying this locally. Works? Congrats! What's next?

You'll need to adjust the local_settings.py file with an editor of your choice. Especially important are the OAuth credentials: There, you'll need to enter your keys & secrets for the TypePad API, which you can get here: http://www.typepad.com/account/access/api_key

Finally, get the database Motion uses set up: python manage.py syncdb

That's it. Now you can get your development server running again, using the command above. For more docs, developer.typepad.com is usually a good place to look, for example when it comes to customizing your Motion instance. Have fun!

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