Re: [SLUG] Blogging system recommendations
Rev Simon Rumble wrote: Hi folks. I'm building a simple web site for a mate of mine who's made a film that's just hitting the festival circuit. I want it to be pretty basic, with just a few pages and a blog that he can update. I use blosxom because it's bloody simple, but it required me to write in HTML. I'll need to get something that he can write in himself, and include links and images probably. maybe even a video clip? So does anyone have any recommendations? Is there a reason you aren't going with https://www2.blogger.com/start?hl=en my own reservations were to do with making it part of a bigger website. Requirements * Ability for non-technical user to enter stuff * Can switch between plain text and HTML for markup * Can include links and images in posts * Easily integrated in another design without using frames Desirable * Has a .deb or is uber-simple to install and maintain * Not written in PHP * Not written in $trendy_language_of_the_week * Doesn't need a database * If it needs a database, can work with sqlite * Comments with some form of comment spam control * Has a critical announcements email list/RSS feed for when security holes are found. I'm looking at you phpBB (though they now have an RSS feed). -- Marghanita da Cruz http://www.ramin.com.au/ Telephone: 0414-869202 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Blogging system recommendations
This one time, at band camp, Marghanita da Cruz wrote: maybe even a video clip? Of course. And I may well be asking questions about Flash Video in the future. (Then again, I might just use YouTube). Is there a reason you aren't going with https://www2.blogger.com/start?hl=en my own reservations were to do with making it part of a bigger website. The same reservations as yours. Blogger _used_ to ftp its stuff onto your site. Leaving beside the security implications, that would at least work, but now it all seems to be geared around hosted blogs. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Blogging system recommendations
Rev Simon Rumble wrote: So does anyone have any recommendations? stick with blosxom, but get a decent html editor with web site publishing? nvu might be decent dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Blogging system recommendations
Quoting Adam Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Both Perl and Python have various things to discourage bad programming by default. The biggest example is probably SQL placeholders, which pretty much remove any chance of SQL injections attack in one fell swoop. I know for DBI it's very difficult to do any non-trivial work without using them. PHP has PDO (which I'm talking about at May's Sydney PHP users group meeting). Wasn't going to reply at all (risking a flamewar) but the PERL pushed me over the edge :) I wasn't actually attacking PERL or Python (many years ago I was a PERL programmer). I was trying to point out that the obsession with calling applications phpFoozle instead of Foozle coupled with a large base of novice programmers means you see lots security alerts with PHP in the title that aren't problems with PHP. Rich -- Rich Buggy http://www.buggy.id.au/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Blogging system recommendations
This one time, at band camp, Dave Kempe wrote: stick with blosxom, but get a decent html editor with web site publishing? nvu might be decent No chance. It's gotta be modifiable by a complete novice, inside a web browser. Currently looking at Serendipity. It supports Postgresql, Mysql and sqlite -- which demonstrates a level of cluefulness above and beyond the average PHP application. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net A politician is like a nappy. He should be changed regularly, and for the same reason - Column 8, Sydney Morning Herald -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Blogging system recommendations
Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This one time, at band camp, Dave Kempe wrote: stick with blosxom, but get a decent html editor with web site publishing? nvu might be decent No chance. It's gotta be modifiable by a complete novice, inside a web browser. I've never used them, but there are javascript html WYSIWYG editors. http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Blogging system recommendations
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rev Simon Rumble wrote: Hi folks. I'm building a simple web site for a mate of mine who's made a film that's just hitting the festival circuit. I want it to be pretty basic, with just a few pages and a blog that he can update. I use blosxom because it's bloody simple, but it required me to write in HTML. I'll need to get something that he can write in himself, and include links and images probably. So does anyone have any recommendations? Requirements * Ability for non-technical user to enter stuff * Can switch between plain text and HTML for markup * Can include links and images in posts * Easily integrated in another design without using frames Desirable * Has a .deb or is uber-simple to install and maintain * Not written in PHP * Not written in $trendy_language_of_the_week * Doesn't need a database * If it needs a database, can work with sqlite * Comments with some form of comment spam control * Has a critical announcements email list/RSS feed for when security holes are found. I'm looking at you phpBB (though they now have an RSS feed). It doesn't fit all your requirement, but I found Project Steve Guttenberg good for installations where you don't want databases: http://www.projectsteveguttenberg.org/about.php It's written in php though. It easy to install and configure. I used it for my first blog back in 2002 and it was being developed before that, so its pretty stable. Also it doesn't have 'php' in its name ;-) - -- dave. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGKBXLhPPdWeHRgaoRAlxMAKC5H0qtNYmyn+AYHrfYde1zU6Th6QCePHEd vbw12cfp/hA04pOnZIJHWs4= =8NeU -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Blogging system recommendations
Hi folks. I'm building a simple web site for a mate of mine who's made a film that's just hitting the festival circuit. I want it to be pretty basic, with just a few pages and a blog that he can update. I use blosxom because it's bloody simple, but it required me to write in HTML. I'll need to get something that he can write in himself, and include links and images probably. So does anyone have any recommendations? Requirements * Ability for non-technical user to enter stuff * Can switch between plain text and HTML for markup * Can include links and images in posts * Easily integrated in another design without using frames Desirable * Has a .deb or is uber-simple to install and maintain * Not written in PHP * Not written in $trendy_language_of_the_week * Doesn't need a database * If it needs a database, can work with sqlite * Comments with some form of comment spam control * Has a critical announcements email list/RSS feed for when security holes are found. I'm looking at you phpBB (though they now have an RSS feed). -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net Remember, objects in the mirror are actually behind you - On a helmet mounted mirror used by US cyclists -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Blogging system recommendations
* On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 03:06:43AM +0100, Rev Simon Rumble wrote: * Not written in PHP * Not written in $trendy_language_of_the_week Rather limits your choices... I presume Ruby/Rails is too trendy, what about Python? -- Sonia Hamilton | GNU/Linux - 'free' as in .| free speech, not free beer. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Blogging system recommendations
This one time, at band camp, Sonia Hamilton wrote: * On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 03:06:43AM +0100, Rev Simon Rumble wrote: * Not written in PHP * Not written in $trendy_language_of_the_week Rather limits your choices... I presume Ruby/Rails is too trendy, what about Python? These are under the desirable heading. PHP is just too much of an open invitation to write buggy code. Ruby might be okay, presuming it's in a .deb, but otherwise I wouldn't have the foggiest where to start. Python is almost looking mature these days! gasp Feel free to recommend things that don't meet all the desirables. I suspect I'll have to compromise because there aren't many blogging tools that don't use databases, are written in Perl and have the features I mentioned. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Blogging system recommendations
Quoting Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED]: PHP is just too much of an open invitation to write buggy code. If PERL or Python had as many novice programmers calling their programs PERLxxx or PythonXXX then I'm sure these languages would look just as bad. Feel free to recommend things that don't meet all the desirables. I suspect I'll have to compromise because there aren't many blogging tools that don't use databases, are written in Perl and have the features I mentioned. WordPress. -- Rich Buggy http://www.buggy.id.au/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Blogging system recommendations
This one time, at band camp, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If PERL or Python had as many novice programmers calling their programs PERLxxx or PythonXXX then I'm sure these languages would look just as bad. Matt's script archive anyone? WordPress. The unholy marriage PHP _and_ MySQL kinda writes it off for me. A toy programming language married to a toy database. Yes I'm bigotted, but this is my server and I'm allowed ;) -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. - George Bernard Shaw -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Blogging system recommendations
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED]: PHP is just too much of an open invitation to write buggy code. If PERL or Python had as many novice programmers calling their programs PERLxxx or PythonXXX then I'm sure these languages would look just as bad. Both Perl and Python have various things to discourage bad programming by default. The biggest example is probably SQL placeholders, which pretty much remove any chance of SQL injections attack in one fell swoop. I know for DBI it's very difficult to do any non-trivial work without using them. Wasn't going to reply at all (risking a flamewar) but the PERL pushed me over the edge :) Adam K -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Blogging system recommendations
I'm using the tumblr software. Look at my blog (address below). It's very simple to use and would certainly meet at least some of your requirements, if not all. -- Visit http://stumblng.tumblr.com An Australian lawyers' tumblelog about things (some legal, most not) you might otherwise have missed -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Blogging system recommendations
On 19/04/07, Adam Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The biggest example is probably SQL placeholders, which pretty much remove any chance of SQL injections attack in one fell swoop. I know for DBI it's very difficult to do any non-trivial work without using them. I was just bitten (again) by the lack of support for these in the MS-SQL DBI interface. Is there another implementation which allows using place holders with MS SQL (2005)? Thanks, --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
