From: jbritt@...
Date: 2003-02-08T10:00:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Blogging software

>
>
> I'll second the ref to James Britt's blogtari.  I'm working on a
> weblogger too, based on some of the ideas in James' implementation, but
> with my own requirements satisfied (more blosxom-ish).  It's currently
> just a personal project, and a great way to learn more about Ruby.
>
> later...
>

I have three sites running Blogtari:
 www.jamesbritt.com
 www.rubyxml.com
 www.ruby-doc.org

With each one I've found a reason to tweak the code, and have been juggling to maintain a sane core version.  There hasn't been a
new release in a while, though I'm fairly close to getting one together.  At the moment I'm driving cross-country (USA: Virginia to
Arizona, quasi-scenic route), so tidying up code and getting it public will still take a bit a of time.

The main goals have been to make it really easy to install and use for basic blogging, but have enough simple hooks that one can
enhance the behavior without touching any core code.  I have accessory classes for fetching and rendering RSS feeds, fetching RAA
info as RSS, styling keywords, auto-creating Google links for "see related pages", rendering of sub-blog headings, and some other
stuff.

For what it's worth, while Blogtari started life as my hacking on a port of Blosxom, I've not tried to maintain any Blosxom
compatibility or features other than what I happen to like.
James