I recently applied for a Django role and was asked to create a simple blogging script. It was a surprising amount of fun and even a small script like that helpe

I recently applied for a Django role and was asked to create a simple blogging script. It was a surprising amount of fun and even a small script like that helped me learn a ton about Django, enough for me to be able to pick it up and put it to use on other projects. So give a blog system a try! Play with getting "SEO friendly URL's" set up, get TinyMCE/Markdown implemented and toy with stopping XSS attacks, set up tagging, etc. If you know a language already I reckon you could easily write it in a weekend.