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When it comes to all the fancy software tools out there, I’m finding myself becoming more and more luddite.
I’ve learned through reading and discussion many ways on how to handle data. It’s something I’m always interested in. However, the one thing that I’ve learned – and sometimes the hard way – is that no matter how awesome your handling of your data it all falls to pieces when your tools break.
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One of the things that’s been a real killer for me using most wikis has been the syntax. None of them get it right.
MediaWiki has been bearable, and over time I’ve grown used to it. The problem is that nobody agrees on a remotely similar syntax. There were some early efforts to create a generally agreed-upon syntax, and it did fairly well.. but it’s still not used everywhere.
I’m not just talking about wikis, but about markup languages in general. Even something like Ruby’s RDoc decided on its own syntax.
And they’re all wrong. Seriously, who thinks that __this is italicized__ ?
I cleaned up the libraries and some of the code, and I uploaded the basics from 0.4.6.
I have a significant todo list, and there are several features that I want/need to implement.. such as templating, section editing, moving pages, creating new pages, automatic linking, code syntax highlighting, page source viewing, selectable stylesheets and more.
Again, this was a hobby project so that I can push my limits and figure out what I can do. I’ll be keeping on this, since I’m migrating my web presence over to this engine. This’ll be a fun ride.
Far-future stuff may include a plugin structure, per-page micro mailing lists for comments, blogging and anything else I can get my hands on while still making every feature an option and also very configurable.
The Compiled Website has been further improved. Most of the effort has gone into its style. It probably looks boxy on IE, but I don’t care.
Wow, did this really take me three days? My homebrew CMS is working, even with automatic navigation and style.
I want to refine the templating so it’s not insanely kludgey, but other than that I’m done. Maybe my next challenge will be to tackle the markup language changes I want.
I’ll be finishing up the remote syncing stuff, and then I’ll set down the cms programming for a while. My next project will be reviewing free hosting and choosing/setting it all up. Then I’ll have something to show for all this time spent.
I take sick pleasure in discovering a fundamental flaw in my programming and tearing it all down to rebuild it again.
I spent most of yesterday and today implementing things I never thought I’d be able to do.
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Blogging is an interesting concept. It’s something I’ve toyed with since before the term was coined.
It’s never seemed to be particularly useful to me. Each item is a kind of pointless bit of gossip whose usefulness is at first questionable and which becomes less and less valuable over time.
See also:
Sigh.. or just use sftp using LFTP.
This was of particular interest for my compiled website project.
