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Sun, 07 Aug 2005
Fusion cuisine
I'm a big fan of Rael Dornfest's Blosxom. It's a server-side weblog solution, scripted in Perl. I'm using it in the development of another of my websites.
I really like Jeremy Ruston's TiddlyWiki. The wiki is managed using client-side JavaScript and HTML. It's a cool, self-contained wiki that can be downloaded as a single HTML file... a single web page. Later, the wiki can be edited on a local machine with no active connection to the internet, requiring only a modern web browser. This makes for extreme portability and unlimited potential for individualization.
Yesterday, when I saw the Ruby on Rael picture, it reminded me of an unfinished project I'd set aside a couple months back. I wanted to use Rael's Blosxom to output a blog's entries as a self-contained TiddlyWiki. I tested a few recipes, but wasn't quite satisfied with the flavour. I kept the project under wraps and pushed it to the back burner. Seeing Rael's antics, I was inspired to start cooking up some code and finish my fusion cuisine experiment.
Here is what I produced:
BloTid alpha - A BlosxomGenerated TiddlyWiki notebook.
BloTid is just a concept, but I think it has potential.
Each Tiddler, or scrap of microcontent in the BloTid TiddlyWiki, is a text blog entry in a Blosxom powered weblog.
spacecoastweb.net BloTid Development blog
I hope you enjoy what I've served up.
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