As I tweak various bits on the blog, I thought I should share what all
makes this blog go. The webserver is Apache running on Solaris on Sun hardware with an UltraSPARC processor. The blog
software is Blosxom.
Tangent: Now Blosxom hasn't really actively been
developed since 2003. And the
authormigrated
away from the package in early 2006. I don't let such things bother me
though, as I am used to choosing software packages and products that aren't
really the most popular or mainstream.
There is however an active User Group, Yahoo group, and a SourceForge Group.
Now blosxom is a darned simple package, less than 400 lines of perl
parsing text files in a simple directory structure. That simplicity is
part of what attracted me to the package, but it does mean I have a few plugins to add or refine
various features.
categorytree: This provides the category list on the right.
flatarchives: This plugin provides the archive list on the right.
preview: A plugin that provides a way for me to see posts on the blog that I am working on, without showing those posts to the general public.
strip_unix_comments: I use unix style comments in my entries to put various meta data for my own benefit. It wouldn't be bad if the public saw them, but they are really only beneficial to me.
date_fullname: A simple plugin that provides templates with the full month name.
flavourdir: Allows me to put my flavour files (the templates used for the html and rss versions of this page) in a different folder than the default.
imagesizer: This plugin automatically puts in the height and width tags for images.
