My (to be) Python “Blogware”

25th August 2003

When I had my short affair with Blosxom earlier in the year I talked about writing my own “blogware” in Python. I didn’t actually get around to writing a single line of code and stopped with the Blosxom affair shortly after. I did buy a Python book and even read a a couple of chapters. I stopped, however, after writing a little script that scraped information from a Web site and finding myself boring of reading the book.

At the moment I’m using Movable Type, again, only as a stop-gap tool before I get around to writing my own. I want to write my own, partly because I’m not too impressed with any system out there and partly because I want to learn Python. There’s something about the current tools that I don’t like, although I can’t put my finger on it.

Today I installed and played around with PikiPiki, a small Python wiki. After poking around in the source a little, it struck me that this is the sort of system I want my “blogware” to be, not just a blog management tool, but a site management tool. I don’t want it to be as open, after all, this is my home page, but I like the emphasis on the sameness of URIs, with each URI meaning something quite specific. How I want to reflect this in my “blogware”, I’m not sure.