This page describes the plans for a weblog I'd like to author.
'Each time I remember that I do have a technical blog, and think to add something to it, I am tempted to start by rewriting the whole blog system in some brand new way that will make it easier to post to (and, the theory goes, therefore make me more likely to write in it). The process of writing more code creates something that I'm even less likely to understand next time, and code begets more code. It's like a depth-first search through an infinite design space. Bad idea.' - Brian's weblog
"Blogs are interesting because they are honest windows into other people's interests and passions. As it turns out, the world is full of fascinating, extremely smart people. The opportunity to learn what motivates, interests and excites them-- professionally or personally-- is invaluable." - Coding Horror: Blogging about Blogging see also “Is writing more important than programming?”
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Contents
Requirements
- irritating twitter functionality
- pics from gallery
- creates static pages
Engines
b2Evolution
Frog
Serendipity
Pebble
Wiki links in Pebble - Simon Brown "decorators"
Typo
Typo - Feature #155: [PATCH] blosxom converter - Typo bug tracker
project is hosted on Ruby Trac-alike called Redmine - supports drafts, xml-rpc
- Ruby, MySQL/sqlite
"Even though there are many ways to run a Rails application, we have chosen and support Passenger aka mod_rails with MySQL as the easiest and most reliable way to run Typo." -- Typo official weblog
- you can create your own text filters - WP
Introduction to Typo filters textfilter
People
WordPress
Sample the Web commentary on patch cycle
"If you are having problems with the generated code, try disabling the default Wordpress formatting (wpautop and wptexturize)." -- WordPress › WP-Dokuwiki « WordPress Plugins
- "Although PukiWiki is a light-weight Wiki engine and its performance is faster than other Wiki engines such as WP-Dokuwiki, it is a good idea to activate WP-Cache plugin and remove burden of parsing Wiki syntax and rendering HTML from your WordPress hosting server." -- Ken Wakita » WP PukiWiki
"WP PukiWiki uses PHP's Curl API"
ByteFlow
Byteflow Blog Engine - Trac Uses django. hg hosted.
Actively developed by team of 5ish as of 2008-07-26
- Mostly foreign users
Angerwhale
Content
- hello complexity
Olmar: manipulating C and C++ abstract syntax trees in Ocaml
- "As example consider the following simple hello world program"
- "Its abstract syntax tree contains 306,768 nodes"
I know the answer (it's 42) : How Many Types are loaded for Hello World
- My favorite Wendy's location is now charging 30 cents for cheese for their chili. I know this because my receipt said "CHZFORCH $0.30".
Forgot your contact solution? Think that letting them sit in Visine overnight instead of water is a good idea? It isn't. You can, however, rub some Wasabi on them for the same effect.
The folks Flylogic Engineering at do things like circumvent “secure” microcontroller ground mesh protection without the use of a Focus Ion-Beam workstation (FIB)X|
infosec interviews ala Digital Soapbox - Preaching Security to the Digital Masses: 31337 Spotlight: "FalconsView"
- | i usually get a little upset when i burn something in the kitchen. there are a few exceptions, however. the slots on my toaster are aligned 45 degrees to the countertop. so if i burn something small in it, the dinner roll or whatever is launched, smoking, in a hilarious arc before crispily landing on the counter.
- i think it would be a good prank to replace the springs in someone's toaster with springs that are 500% stronger.
Forgot your contact solution? Think that letting them sit in Visine overnight instead of water is a good idea? It isn't. You can, however, rub some Wasabi on them for the same effect.
- The folks at Flylogic Engineering do things like circumvent "secure" microcontroller ground mesh protection without the use of a Focus Ion-Beam workstation (FIB)X|
Flylogic challange 2 Intel 4004 silicon process (Flickr image by jeri ellsworth) RIT Computer registration got you down? Bummed out by Daily WTF-worthy error messages?
- Don't choose a custom hostname.
Micro-blogging
- Homework: compare and contrast w/ IRC
Laconica: AGPL micro-blogging system
"Expect to see a GPG plugin for laconica soon." -- Sylvan von Stuppe: Twitter Continues to Be Caught With Their Pants Down
- gatech/unc charlotte "people"
- "Bite size" post for now
"Examples of tumbeblog services are tumblr, soup.io and streem. There are also free software tumbeblog engines, although I haven't tried any of them: chyrp, ozimodo, and gelato." -- Tumbeblogging with pyblosxom?
Blogging about code
- tarballs
tarweb chrooted (or otherwise isolated [vm]) unpackfs
- syntax highlighting and line number anchoring
- pygments
GeSHi - Generic Syntax Highlighter - Home (wordpress plugin available)
Rochester
About
- bootybone.freeservers.com/whatis.htm
http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=16&q=http://www.epitonic.com/genres/house.html&e=7507
- link to "phases" blog post
Pythons!
- pymarkdown
- pybloxsom
- snarfed.org uses it
- twisted requires 2.3
better off using an older twisted http://archives.free.net.ph/message/20070327.045418.579b4d64.en.html
1and1 had mod_python in 2004 http://archives.free.net.ph/message/20070327.045418.579b4d64.en.html
pygments <-s!
Installing MoinMoin at DreamHost python 2.2.2
Syntax Highlighing
- See "Blogging about code" above
Same Con to Hoyci » Highlighting Code Using Pygments and Beautiful Soup would require post-publish blogger hook.
Speaking thru experience: Make your source code look cool on your blog with Pygments by hand
New Content
- "dubbed"
- "hello radio one's essential mix listeners. today i would like to talk to you about the cow. the cow has four sides: top, left, right, and bottom. i do not know much about the cow so i will go on to talk about the mouse. the mouse sounds like this."
- "Uh, it's like a authentif... icacity[sic] thing. It's just something we have to take off your account. It's because of our new system" - capital one phone rep
Security Guru of the Week http://taviso.decsystem.org/
Models
- Writing An Hadoop MapReduce Program In Python - Michael G. Noll
SSH Security and You - /bin/false is *not* security - semicomplete.com - Jordan Sissel RIT CSH!
concatenate strings in bash » from the desk of stinkpot nice (photo)graphical menu
norman.walsh.name nice badges.
eighty-eight miles per hour used to use pyblosxom
neohippie - blog RIT CSH!
Freshmeat.net now available in DOAP: 43 000 new DOAP projects at Frederick Giasson’s Weblog nice pic frame
dmiessler.com - grep understanding knowledge
- librarything is cool
Polls
How much does acroread suck? http://blog.jalenack.com/archives/democracy/
3rd-Party Services
Don't want to have to
- maintain a patchset to use ssl.perfora
keep up to date with security updates (0day fear!) /home/drear
Don't like the prospect of getting "shut down" http://groups.google.com/group/blogger-help-loginissues/browse_thread/thread/7a769abd94885566
- disqus discussion hosting (deamonic)
Zope/Plone/Quills
The later hasn't been updated in >1yr
Blogger
Great homages to the blog-os-fear
Statistics
Etc
http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2006/12/20/how-to-get-your-blog-or-yourself-mentioned-in-print-media/
- contests/quizzes
"I like HOWTOs, they solve problems, but I would like to see some WHYTOs, that goes a little deeper and give more details." - http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=467158&postcount=24