Bash Blogger
Forum: water cooler
Topic: Bash Blogger
started by: Grim
Posted by Grim on June 19 2004,17:41
<shameless_plug>I'm not sure how aware many of you were with Bowie J. Poag's < microblogger >. I'd always liked it but my hosting provided doesn't support SSI (which microblogger requires) and I don't think the monkey web server does either. I was too lazy to configure Apache on my system again so I wrote my own blogging software.
I've released it as a project over on < Freshmeat > and I wanted to let everyone here know about it as well.
Bash Blogger generates static XHTML 1.0 Strict pages by default and uses CSS for controlling apperance. It requires bash, vi, and a few basic GNUtils available to the shell. So far it's been tested and works with Linux and OSX. I'm pretty sure it will work okay with DSL but I haven't tested it out yet.
I'm here to ask if I can get any volunteers to help me beta test the software and work out any bugs. The latest tarball is < bblog-0.2.tar.gz >. There's a working demo at < http://grimthing.com/bashblogger/ >
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Posted by John on June 20 2004,01:18
I downloaded it and tried it locally. I have to say I like it a lot. It is a very easy to use.
Posted by Grim on June 20 2004,02:09
| Quote (John @ June 19 2004,19:18) |
| I downloaded it and tried it locally. I have to say I like it a lot. It is a very easy to use. |
Thanks John, can I quote you on that?
Posted by Del on June 20 2004,05:38
Tried it locally, and it worked just gruvy. Still not quite what I'm after, cause I'm a nitpicky freak who's written a dozen CMS's/blogs and not been happy with any of them. It does exactly as it says it does, no more, no less, which is a Good Thing. Well done, not many blogging softwares can make that claim (well, without being lying jackholes anyway 
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Posted by hardpack on June 21 2004,16:54
I just starting using BashBlogger, and I'm in love with it. I think it's totally appropriate to post it here, since it follows similar philosophies to DSL. Keep it simple!One thing you might want to note on the site is that if people are frustrated with BashBlogger because it uses vi, all they have to do is replace the 7 occurences of vi in bblog with the name of their favorite editor. Pretty simple, sis!
Thanks for the fun app! You actually make blogging fun for me!
Oh, and another thing I did (because I'm anal) is change one line to:
echo "<div class=\"entry\">\n\n<h3>$TITLE</h3>`cat .story`\n\n<br /><div class=\
"dateline\">Posted `date +"%a %b %e,%Y @ %l:%M%P"`</div>\n</div>">.scratch
Added newlines so that when you edit the file your text is isolated from the markup that bblog added to your entry.