Obligatory Navel-gazing First Entry
So after a lot of hounding from some people, I've finally decided to join the crowd. Yay.
If I were a *real* hacker, I would have rolled my own, but I'm not, so I didn't. This is pretty cool though, it even generates an RSS feed.
I'm going to add things I've been writing recently as a kind of odd trip into the past. So even though this is technically the first entry, it'll be hidden among the rest. Happy birthday.
Comments
Having done it myself for years, I assure you, rolling your own is *not* worth it in this day and age of things like Moveable Type. Some wheels are worth reinventing, but this is not one of them.
If I were starting over now (instead of 3.5 years ago), I would definitely have used MT... but back then, all that existed was a prenatal form of Blogger, and with it I couldn't add historical content that I wanted to add.
Posted by: Benjy | June 5, 2002 09:48 PM
Yeah. I only rolled my own because I wanted to test out my PLIF code on something simple. It's not worth it if you are starting now. Are there any Free blogging systems though? (as in, GPL?)
Posted by: Ian | June 6, 2002 09:39 PM
A quick freshmeat search for "blog" (apparently MT does't allow me to put links in my comments) reveals lots of GPL blogging software. Which makes the real question, "are there any *good* (in terms of features, flexibility, and security) Free blogging systems?"
Posted by: Benjy | June 7, 2002 12:12 AM
Yep, good catch... there are indeed several. I'm sure at least one of them must be usable... :-)
Posted by: Ian | June 7, 2002 06:39 PM
There, no more comments in popup windows, and you can use HTML in your comments too. Everyone happy now? :)
Posted by: Nadia | June 7, 2002 06:58 PM
yay, thanks :-)
Posted by: Ian Hickson | June 7, 2002 08:36 PM
There's a good free blogging system now, as my own blog system is now available:
http://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1025477612&count=1
Posted by: Ian Hickson | July 1, 2002 08:47 PM