Blogfountain Month 2
I’m pleased to report that my custom blogging software appears to have successfully handled the month transition from June to July.
To celebrate, I added some validation, sorting, and capping functions to the stylesheet. I also threw in an optional Apache Ant script for easier builds and deployment.
My brother Michael and my friend Matt have both expressed interest in the code behind this, so I threw together a preliminary archive.
To use this yourself, you’ll need
- An XSLT 2.0 Processor like Saxon-B 8.4 and most likely a Java virtual machine to support it.
You may want but could get by without
- The afformentioned Apache Ant. This will also require Java.
- An HTML authoring tool like Nvu or Dreamweaver for creating content.
I like Blogfountain because it’s easy too customize and I can keep my blog as static HTML files on my own webserver. But if you prefer to go the simpler route and don’t care where your actual content resides, you might be happier with existing blog software.
Matt tells me he written a database-ready PHP-based comments engine for his blog. I may look at grafting this onto Blogfountain. [Note: this blog has since been moved to WordPress]