Tag: blogging

Trackbacks

I am currently very interested in trackbacks. I have read a few of documents about them here, here, and here. I am starting to get an idea, but until I will send one and receive one, I will not be sure.

NucleusCMS has a plugin for trackbacks, but it has no user guide. I have set up a small form for sending trackbacks to me an linked it to all posts in my blog. Can anyone try to send me a trackback ping and let me know if it works? Or if I get it right at all… Meanwhile, I’ll find someone to ping myself.

It takes me more than 30 minutes to completely understand the technology and that can mean only one of two things: either the technology is overdesigned and complicated, or I am getting old. Feel free to suggest a third option.

Update (05 Dec 2004 16:31): I have figured it out and reconfigured everything the right way. Minor usability enhancements might follow, but nothing major is expected from where I stand.

blosxom

For my company blog I decided to try a different tool. Since I am mostly using Perl for all my tasks, I thought why not to get some content management system (CMS) which is written in Perl. A quick tour around suggested blosxom. It turned out to be a pretty impressive piece of software. With minimum requirements (runs as CGI) it has all regular blogging features, and supports themes (flavours) and plugins. There are many plugins available from the site.

One of the main differences from many other CMS projects is that blosxom does not use any database. It operates on files and directories. The advantage to that is editing. One can use his favourite text editor to create posts. Categorizing and subcategorizing is also easy – just move a file from one directory to another. Plugins are available to create permanent links based on categories, dates, and titles of posts. Searching plugin is also available.

It took me less than 30 minutes to set up the blog with blosxom and configure a number of plugins. I might even consider migrating this blog to blosxom. Maybe not. But I am impressed non-the-less. Give it a try.

Leonid @ Work

It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything work related to this blog. This is caused by several reasons with the main one being confidentiality. I am not always certain what is confidential and what is not. And when I am not certain I prefer to stay on the safe side. Thus no posts. That, of course, doesn’t mean that nothing interesting is happening in the office.

Today I decided that not being able to post office stories to the public blog is not a good reason not to blog them. So I started another blog which on the company’s internal network. I figured that is an excellent way of sharing knowledge and experience with colleagues, while providing more information about my activities to the management.

Now I wonder if anyone else will follow me in the company, how the company management and colleagues will react, and weather my company will consider starting a public blog anytime soon. The future will tell…