Fri, 24 Oct 2008

Why pyblosxom ?

I spend quite a lot of time examining software and blogging applications are in this scope. Wordpress is certainly the industry leader and has the most features. Besides, there is Serendipity out there which is lighter, more secure and easier to manage. It takes simple clicks to install plugins, try new templates, edit new stories and manage the site with hundreds of options.

However, what if you do not want any of these ? What if you do not want to deal with WYSIWYG javascript editors like FCKeditor ? What if you do not want to take care of database backups, upgrade tests ? What if all you want is just write your story in your favourite text editor and leave it ?
Then you do not have much choice. You can use Blog hosting sites which take care of everything for you or you can try running pyblosxom for fun.
Pyblosxom is based on blosxom but it is written in Python. It can be run using cgi, fast-cgi, paste or mod_python. It only uses file system as storage backend therefore backup means only taking tar archive of several files. Pyblosxom has very few but clean plugins, templates and API. I will make fun out of this nice tool which resembles a good example for KISS

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