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Blosxom 1.0

Rael Dornfest: I'm thrilled to announce the 1.0 release of my Blosxom weblog app.... With the choice of dynamic or static rendering, Blosxom is at the point I'd hoped it'd be when it went 1.0.

Now I have my first dillema. I want to do static rendering for scalability, but in accordance with the teachings of REST, I also want my URI to identify resources that can serve both GETs and POSTs.

Meanwhile, the temptation to ditch Perl for Python is growing...

What would http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/1148.html do if you POSTed to it? Would your comment form change to post to the page you're commenting on?

As a side note, you might have a look at your template for stories. If you go look at one (Cohesion, for instance), you'll notice the home link takes you to 0101679.

Posted by Gordon Weakliem at

POSTs to my weblog are treated as comments or trackbacks. Posts can be done either via index.html specifying parent=1148 or directly via 1148.html - the difference being what is returned. From a human factors point of view, where do you expect to end up after you enter a comment? Early on, I decided to make this be the home page, and I have yet to hear a complaint.

The direction I would like to head is having one be able to post an RSS item, and that logic I would prefer to do in Python.

Yes, my stories are long overdue for a facelift.

Meanwhile, I am starting to have some serious doubts about this whole REST thing. ;-)

Posted by Sam Ruby at

Yay! Rael Dornfest released Blosxom 1.0 today. Now I can convert my heretofore hidden movie log to something better suited... [more]

Trackback from Christopher Elkins

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Well after reading the post (no pun intended) that followed, I wondered if I had fallen for a joke :-) Amen to Python, BTW, I have been reading Dive Into Python, though with me, it's more like "Dip your toe into Python"

Posted by Gordon Weakliem at

You think RSS is easier to handle in Python? I guess I don't follow the "and that logic I'd prefer to do in Python" part.

Posted by Nathan Torkington at

I've programmed in Perl for many years, but having written this with nothing more than a stock Python installation (using regular expressions, sax, sgml, xmlrpc), I've been impressed with Python.

Posted by Sam Ruby at

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