Stone Age Blogger
I am the curmudgeon of the blogging world.
Blosxom powers my site with some speedy and very flexible Perl code. For other gems, such as my fortune cookie of randomly selected quotes, a flexible plugin interface lets me sort through what I need and what I don't need.
Dave says I'm living in the stone age. I like things that work, are simple, and can be extended flexibly. I most notably despise any configuration stored in binary-encoded files. Sure, this information is more efficient, but anyone who has dealt with corrupt GConf keys, or registry hives knows human-readable configuration is worth the small performance hit.
Forgive my short tirade, but it is for this reason that I use Blosxom. I've dabbled in Movable Type, but it still didn't have the flexibility that I wanted from blogging software. Those of you who have followed Casimusings for a longer portion of its history know that for a very long time, my own homegrown Perl code, dubbed Sublimeade, was responsible for rendering new entries.
I craft each blog entry in Bluefish, using a limited set of HTML tags, and let CSS handle the overall formatting of the page.
Stone age? Perhaps.
What I must finally break down and do however, is provide some real syndication feeds. So, coming soon, Atom and RSS feeds should be coming soon, for eager aggregators! Thanks for the nudge out of the past, Dave :)
At least I've stopped blogging in Emacs.
Blosxom powers my site with some speedy and very flexible Perl code. For other gems, such as my fortune cookie of randomly selected quotes, a flexible plugin interface lets me sort through what I need and what I don't need.
Dave says I'm living in the stone age. I like things that work, are simple, and can be extended flexibly. I most notably despise any configuration stored in binary-encoded files. Sure, this information is more efficient, but anyone who has dealt with corrupt GConf keys, or registry hives knows human-readable configuration is worth the small performance hit.
Forgive my short tirade, but it is for this reason that I use Blosxom. I've dabbled in Movable Type, but it still didn't have the flexibility that I wanted from blogging software. Those of you who have followed Casimusings for a longer portion of its history know that for a very long time, my own homegrown Perl code, dubbed Sublimeade, was responsible for rendering new entries.
I craft each blog entry in Bluefish, using a limited set of HTML tags, and let CSS handle the overall formatting of the page.
Stone age? Perhaps.
What I must finally break down and do however, is provide some real syndication feeds. So, coming soon, Atom and RSS feeds should be coming soon, for eager aggregators! Thanks for the nudge out of the past, Dave :)
At least I've stopped blogging in Emacs.
