Paraplegic Racehorse http://www.paraplegicracehorse.net/ ::Grand Curmudgeon:: International Discordance of Kilted Apiarists BlazeBlogger 1.2.0 Testing a new CMS http://www.paraplegicracehorse.net/2012/01/1-testing-a-new-cms/ http://www.paraplegicracehorse.net/2012/01/1-testing-a-new-cms/ Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:00:01 GMT I switched the CMS I use to maintain the site. No more server-side PHP scripts, here with it's separate log-in requirements, forgotten passwords, databases and all the other fancy-foo drek and needless complexity. BlazeBlogger is a little set of perl scripts that run on my local computer, lets me compose in pretty much any tag language I want and compiles to ordinary HTML pages for you to digest. It makes life a little simpler for me and for the server (not that I put a heavy load on it to begin with).

I need to port the old template and do some other fiddling to make everything, as Apple would put it, "just work." Once all that set-up is done, updates to the site should be easy as pie.

To Do:

  • Port old or create new template;
  • Insert code for Google Analytics (because I'm geeky that way);
  • Figure out how to deal with binaries like audio, video, PDF and archives
  • Figure out how to auto-upload changes to my site host (rsync?)
  • See if I can't add a commenting system
  • Decide whether to continue updating the blog at Blogger.com or move it here
  • Some other stuff I can't think of right now.

Expect fairly rapid changes in the coming days and weeks. After, there will probably be my usual slow trickle of updating. I have a few things I've wanted to accomplish with the site. It's time to get started on it.

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