Dusting off the Blog

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

I do this every few months. I decide to try this blogging thing again and it usually lasts a couple of weeks until I forget about it. We'll see how it goes this time round. I've uploaded a blogging engine (or backend) that I was working on last year so that's what this site is running on. Some of the posts are from last year when I started this and a couple are from about a month ago. The archiving is buggy as I had only just started on that when this fell into disrepair last year. I'll spend some more time on it if I stick at it.

While it still needs a lot of work there's a couple of things that I like about this back end. It's all flat files so it's easy to move and get setup. Also each post is it's own file with some meta data and I can assign a type to each post ie. POST, PHOTO, LINK. This allows me to treat each type of post slightly differently and will also let me do some interesting things like only show links or only show photos etc.

It's kind of crazy that I write web applications for a living and pretty much hate doing it but then in my spare time I'll spend it on something like this. I think I have issues. Oh and I'll replace the horrible logo/header at some point too.