16th June, 2001
Homebrew Always Tastes Sweeter
Saturday, 12:47 am in Archive
Along with this monster, other homebrew weblog systems are beginning to spring up. Michel from <a href=”links.php?linkid=2”>dayzero.org</a> is working on <a href=”http://b2.dayzero.org”>b2</a>; which is sort of more Blogger/Greymatter based than this one. This, in my humble opinion, is a Good Thing; the less dependent on other sites people are the better. Besides, the basics for most of this shit isn’t very hard to actually write; I basically taught myself PHP and MySQL as I was going along. Hell, maybe we’ll even start a trend of GPL’d, home written weblogs. After all, the more you actually write yourself the more you can get it exactly like you want it; right down to the tiniest detail. So Jane Random User can grab a distro of something like b2 or this thing and use it as a “core” around which to build any of the other features they want. Sort of like the *BB “hacking” (that is, adding extra features to, not destroying) phenomenon. So, instead of the whole wide world being reliant on <a href=”http://www.blogger.com”>Blogger</a> and <a href=”http://www.noahgrey.com/greysoft/”>GreyMatter</a>, which makes for rather homogenous weblogs, a greater diversity in weblog styles and backends will emerge. Well, maybe. <br /> <br /> I really need to be studying maths insead of going off on an idealistic tyrade, though. Stupid non-assessable practice test…- Comments By » michel v
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The funny thing is that I’ve been going around weblog systems on freshmeat.net, and most of these were sooo lame !
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By the way the controlpanel menu system in b2 allows adding sections very easily, which makes endless hack possibilities
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lol
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My code is such a jumbled mess; you have to <i>really</i> know what you’re doing to add stuff to it. I get lost in it. I’ll have to clean it up a <i>lot</i> before releasing any of it.