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Blosxom: A blogging platform, in a single perl file.

11 points by chanux 17y ago

tvon 17y ago
Blosxom has been around since at least 2003, it's not exactly "news".
- skorgu 17y ago
  Still awesome though. Reading the source is a great way to pick up idiomatic perl too.
wrinklz 17y ago
The official Blosxom website (according to wikipedia) is http://blosxom.sourceforge.net/ http://blosxom.sourceforge.net/ .
twopoint718 17y ago
This was my favorite blogging platform back in the day. It was easy to plug markdown into and I thought they had a good idea for just using the filesystem (no web post editor). Not to put words into any mouths, but they must have figured you already had a favorite text editor (Emacs, Vim, etc.)
scottw 17y ago
I'm a long-time blosxom user. I can't stand not having plain-text files for my entries (via Emacs). I use Markdown and Smartypants for HTML styling. The plugin architecture is still unrivaled in blog software, imo. I've used three or four of the hundreds of plugins and written 8 or 9 of my own (specific to my needs). Still loving it.
sethg 17y ago
I used to use blosxom for my blog, and the one thing that drove me away was comment handling. The comment plugin that was available (at the time) stored all comments concatenated together into one file, which meant that if you wanted to take out one spam comment, you had to open that file and snip something out of the middle. And when I was on blosxom I attracted a lot of spam. I eventually gave up and moved to textpattern (http://textpattern.com/ http://textpattern.com/), which has also occasionally irritated me, but not enough to switch a second time. (At least, not until I write my own damn blog-serving software, like a true ubernerd...)
mapleoin 17y ago
There's pyblosxom for python and _why's hobix for ruby (which is dead). There's also http://www.jekyllrb.com/ http://www.jekyllrb.com/ for ruby now which is very advanced and very active. I started my own static blogging system written in python sort of copying what jekyll was at the beginning: http://github.com/mapleoin/pyblee/tree/master http://github.com/mapleoin/pyblee/tree/master It's really much better than any other dynamic blogging system out there. I have: code syntax highlighting, textile markup, tags, RSS, comments via disqus, my favourite templating engine etc.
granular 17y ago
It's news page seems to be down, and the mailing list looks to be mostly overrun with spam. :(

11 points by chanux 17y ago

tvon 17y ago

Blosxom has been around since at least 2003, it's not exactly "news".

skorgu 17y ago
Still awesome though. Reading the source is a great way to pick up idiomatic perl too.

wrinklz 17y ago

The official Blosxom website (according to wikipedia) is http://blosxom.sourceforge.net/ http://blosxom.sourceforge.net/ .

twopoint718 17y ago

This was my favorite blogging platform back in the day. It was easy to plug markdown into and I thought they had a good idea for just using the filesystem (no web post editor). Not to put words into any mouths, but they must have figured you already had a favorite text editor (Emacs, Vim, etc.)

scottw 17y ago

I'm a long-time blosxom user. I can't stand not having plain-text files for my entries (via Emacs). I use Markdown and Smartypants for HTML styling. The plugin architecture is still unrivaled in blog software, imo. I've used three or four of the hundreds of plugins and written 8 or 9 of my own (specific to my needs). Still loving it.

sethg 17y ago

I used to use blosxom for my blog, and the one thing that drove me away was comment handling. The comment plugin that was available (at the time) stored all comments concatenated together into one file, which meant that if you wanted to take out one spam comment, you had to open that file and snip something out of the middle. And when I was on blosxom I attracted a lot of spam. I eventually gave up and moved to textpattern (http://textpattern.com/ http://textpattern.com/), which has also occasionally irritated me, but not enough to switch a second time. (At least, not until I write my own damn blog-serving software, like a true ubernerd...)

mapleoin 17y ago

There's pyblosxom for python and _why's hobix for ruby (which is dead). There's also http://www.jekyllrb.com/ http://www.jekyllrb.com/ for ruby now which is very advanced and very active. I started my own static blogging system written in python sort of copying what jekyll was at the beginning: http://github.com/mapleoin/pyblee/tree/master http://github.com/mapleoin/pyblee/tree/master It's really much better than any other dynamic blogging system out there. I have: code syntax highlighting, textile markup, tags, RSS, comments via disqus, my favourite templating engine etc.

granular 17y ago

It's news page seems to be down, and the mailing list looks to be mostly overrun with spam. :(