Colophon
Wed, 01 Jan 2003
Platforms and software used in the development of this site:
- site5
- This is where I currently buy domain hosting. They provide reasonably prompt service and fairly reliable uptime. The features are great and they seem to know what web developers need.
- Linux
- The server's OS. This site is penguin-powered.
- Apache
- The web server.
- PERL
- PERL is an interpreted programming language. It's an old camel that can still spit.
- Blosxom - Unofficial Blosxom User Group
- It's the zen of blogging with prehistoric tools. Blosxom is big in Japan. And here's another Blosxom site from Japan. Download the latest versions here: Blosxom on SourceForge. For completeness, here is Blosxom's Wikipedia entry.
- Blosxom Flavours - Unofficial Blosxom Flavour Repository
- Flavours are like templates, but tastier. Mostly, I use my own recipes, based upon the work of others. The site is rendered dynamically, so each page is cooked fresh.
- Text files
- Entries are just text files with some words, mark-up tags and meta information. Easy. Blosxom calls them stories.
- Blosxom Plugins - Unofficial Blosxom Plugin Repository
- Configure a plugin, if needed, then drop it in. (Maybe I'm understating the process, but not by much.)
- Blosxom Plugin: author
- Sets a default author. - Not yet implemented.
- Blosxom Plugin: blogroll*
- Turns a generic opml file into a blogroll. *Patched to provide extra styling.
- Blosxom Plugin: breadcrumbs*
- Leaves a trail of breadcrumbs. *Patched to provide an extensionless, canonical uri.
- Blosxom Plugin: categorytree
- Provides a list of categories and sub-categories.
- Blosxom Plugin: directorybrowse*
- This provides a path-style browsable permalink. *Patched to provide an extensionless, canonical uri.
- Blosxom Plugin: entries_cache_meta*
- Caches a bunch of junk, which speeds up the rendering and populates meta variables earlier in the process. *With this patch applied.
- Blosxom Plugin: extensionless
- No more ugly .html extensions on my pages.
- Blosxom Plugin: feedback
- Akismet-protected, configurable comment and trackback solution.
- Blosxom Plugin: file
- Makes a file's contents available as a variable for use in a flavour.
- Blosxom Plugin: find
- A search function plugin. - Not yet implemented.
- Blosxom Plugin: flavourdir
- Gives me a place to keep my flavours.
- Blosxom Plugin: gentime
- Tells me how long it takes to generate a page.
- Blosxom Plugin: geotagger*
- Supplies maplinks and getagging to my pages, and georss for my feeds: Used for location-based blogging. *Rewritten to use entries_cache_meta, so that meta-location variables in the stories are available in the head.flavour template. - Under active development.
- Blosxom Plugin: gzip
- For browsers that support gzip compression, speeds page delivery and reduces bandwidth.
- Blosxom Plugin: hide
- Hides some files and folders.
- Blosxom Plugin: interpolate_fancy
- Interpolation allows conditional statements which help customize the blog's output.
- Blosxom Plugin: lastmodified2
- Provides last modified times and correct http response headers. Here's the detail: The lastmodified2 plugin
- Blosxom Plugin: meta
- Gives me the ability to pass values to other plugins, using hidden metadata within my stories. Handy.
- Blosxom Plugin: prettycategory
- Not all that necessary at present, but I might use it anyway.
- Blosxom Plugin: slashredir
- Helps provide an extensionless, canonical uri. See: Enforcing proper use of trailing slashes. - Disabled at present, due to a redirect problem stemming from a conflict with my current .htaccess rewrite rules.
- Blosxom Plugin: storystate
- I'm using this for some of the variables it populates.
- Blosxom Plugin: storytitle
- Provides a better page title on individual story views.
- Blosxom Plugin: timezone
- Corrects timezone differences between me and my server.
- Blosxom Plugin: twitter*
- Brings my twitter stream to my blog. (Follow spacecoastweb on twitter.) Special thanks to maswan for Fixing Blosxom Plugin: Twitter. *Patched to provide extra styling.
- Blosxom Plugin: wikieditishvc
- Provides a password-protected, version-control, editing interface.
- Blosxom Plugin: wikiwordish
- Allows for simple, wiki style links in markup, which are converted to html anchor links in page views.
- Blosxom Plugin: meta_youtube
- An experimental, unfinished plugin of my own creation. Deals with the ugly embed code that YouTube creates, substituting a more elegant solution.
- blueprintcss
- Blueprint is a CSS framework which provides browser resets, basic typography, and a grid-based system to aid web development.
- SWFObject
- A javascript flash object handler, used here to display YouTube videos without the dreaded embed code.
- NOTEPAD++
- A very useful text editor.
- Fasticon.com
- Slick-looking free icons.
- Silk Icons - famfamfam.com
- The best set of free icons.
- Wufoo
- Provides a web-based contact form for the site.
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