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Friday, November 04, 2005

Blosxom - A Perl-Based Blogging Platform

The other day, I noticed that a couple of recent visitors to this blog were searching for a Perl-based blogging client. Rael Dornfest, Chief Technology Officer at publisher O'Reilly Media, has had a hand in a number of XML-based technologies including, I believe, an earlier version of RSS that was RDF-based. He is the "owner and trainer" of an open-source Perl-based blogging client called Blosxom (pronounced "blossom").

Blosxom appears to have a huge list of plugins and, for the most part, appears to be relatively simple (a single CGI script to upload to your web server). The web pages boast a 15-minute setup time. But with the lack of sleep that I'm getting, and despite my decade of Perl programming, I couldn't get a test post to display. However, don't let that stop you from trying. My experience with Perl says that this is simply due to some small typing error somewhere that I've made. In fact, numerous blogsites are running blosxom, and my guess is that not all of their owners are Perl programmers. (The Blosxom website has a Google pagerank of 8/10. While this isn't necessarily proof of anything, I'm thinking that there are enough people that like Blosxom to link to the site.)

If you know enough about Perl to change a couple of strings to describe your blog title, site, and URL in a text editor, then you probably know to use Blosxom. If you are a multi-blogger like myself, and are searching for a single-install platform that not only allows multiple blogs but multiple authors, then Blosxom might be for you. I will try to figure out my installation, and once I've tried out a few plugins, I'll blog some more about Blosxom.

Note: I'm still working madly trying to set up the new home for this blog, but I've been delayed. I'll post an entry here once I've finished. Thanks for your patience. For the time being, I'll continue to post here occasionally about Perl.

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