Working on my blog

If I don’t post much today it’s because I’m hard at work on the new database driven version of this blog. I’m hoping to open souce it so I’m trying to design it to be as easy to customise and modify as possible, which means plugin support, themes and an extensible API. At the moment it will only work with mySQL but I’m trying to keep the data access routines abstracted away so they can be easily replaced with code for other databases or even a flat file or XML storage system.

Posted 17th August 2002 at 2:54 pm

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Stuart's Law of Indispensable Hubris: All tech webloggers eventually write their own weblogging system. I'd steal yours when it happens if it wasn't for the fact that I can pretty much guarantee that it'll be in PHP ;)
sil - 17th August 2002 14:06 - #
Aah but I started out with my own system (if you exclude a two day flirtation with Radio to see what the fuss was about) ;) It will be in PHP, but that's mainly because PHP is far easier to host than Python.
Simon - 17th August 2002 14:09 - #
Well, yeah, I entirely accept what you're saying about PHP hosting, but I don't care because I have my own server and can install what i like on it ;-)
sil - 17th August 2002 17:15 - #
I actually started out with my own system too, thinking about it, but I moved to MT instead because it looked like I'd get a load of functionality for free, which I did. However, it's now starting to annoy me...
sil - 17th August 2002 17:15 - #
/me bows to Stuart's Law of Indispensable Hubris and starts drawing up plans to combine and refine his hacked together collection of php scripts into a coherent whole.

And it all started because I don't have external FTP access from work...

insin - 6th May 2003 17:26 - #

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