I’ve had a chance to play with Blosxom for a couple of days now and I have to say I get more impressed with it the more I play. I didn’t fully comprehend the power of this little script when I first installed it but after setting up a few directories underneath my content directory I’ve got to say, “Wow! Instant categories for my log entries.” All I need to do is write the story, apply the markup and save that puppy to a dirctory for the category I want it to be placed in. Every 15 minutes cron runs Blosxom to statically create the HTML pages but it only actually writes anything when there has been a change.
It took me all of twenty minutes to implement Trackback last night and it wouldn’t have taken me that long if I had just implemented it instead of trying to hack it to add comments. I’ll get the comments added this week sometime but after about 10 minutes of fiddling I decided it was best to just get one thing working at a time.
I’m still tweaking the templates some and I want to address the current RSS setup to allow picking whatever flavor of RSS you want, from 0.91 to 3.0 but what you see right now is about what I’m going to stay with as far a looks of this site goes. I’m also interested in creating some special XML templates that might be compatible with the PHP code I wrote for Justin’s Journal. I guess we’ll see.
About Larry D. Burton
I'm a 55 year old controls engineer who just likes tinkering with stuff.
Finished high school at a local institute of learning. Decided it wasn't a good time to be a healthy, physically fit 18 year old with no college experience. Entered college and started working toward a degree in animal husbandry.
1975-1976
Discoverd that I was not going to be a very good husband of animals so I left school to figure out what I might be good at. A local beverage company took pity on me and paid me to go from place to place making sure their on tap beverages were maintaining their high quality.
1976-1979
Got out of quality control and into vending. Learned about control systems and refrigeration also learned that vending machines are heavy and vending doesn't pay all that well.
In 1977 I found myself married
1979-1981
Dedicated myself to installing and maintaining commercial refrigeration equipment. Found myself on the roof of a local grocery store one night in the middle of an ice storm replacing a compressor and figured it was time to get back into school.
1981-1986
Got my but back into school at night and changed jobs to keep the mechanical and electrical systems of a local coporate hospital in working order. The job expanded to unstopping drains and burning lab samples and amputated body parts.
1986-now
Finished school and took on a job designing, installing and maintaining industrial control systems. Along the way I picked up a bunch of computer skills that became very useful connecting various industrial controllers to one another and moving the data into coporate databases. I now operate Dallas Bay Technologies, a one man shop specializing in technology solutions for industrial problems.
