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Sat, 04 Mar 2006

My Modifications to Blosxom
I use blosxom (v2) for my blog software. It's lightweight, simple to setup and administrate, written in Perl, and free to use and alter. Blosxom uses the file system as its organizational structure. Directory names become category names. Files are blog entries, and blog entry titles are simply the first line in each file. The file modification time is used as the blog entry's publication date. Managing a blosxom blog is nothing more than creating, editing, and manipulating files.

I've made just one minor modification to blosxom (see log). I wanted to be able to use all numeric directory entries, but this conflicted with blosxom's built-in "view by date" capability. The feature allows for the creation of URLs to isolate blog entries by date. The general form of such a blosxom blogi URL is:

    http://blog_url/[optional_category_path]/[YYYY]/[optional_MM]/[optional_DD]/

This is a great feature of blosxom. Unfortunately, blosxom out of the box prevents me from using all-numeric directory names such as a year (e.g. '/daily_journal/2005' or '/daily_journal/2006'). I think this was simply a small oversight by the original blosxom developer, and so I've added some code to correct it.

You can download my modifications to blosxom in the full context of the file itself, or as a patch. My cvs development log for blosxom is also available.

(Update Fri Mar 10 14:23:17 PST 2006 // updated links and link titles)
(Update Fri Mar 17 00:09:24 PST 2006 // added link to original source)
(Update Fri Apr 7 12:58:43 PDT 2006 // added clarity to description of mods)

:: Posted by rus on Sat, 04 Mar 2006 11:01 pm
:: Filed under /contrib/blosxom


Out and About
The weather today was fantastic. I took the opportunity to get out and about in the yard and do some pre-spring clean up. Berkeley was out with me for much if not most of day too. If he wasn't pushing the lawn mower with me then he'd pull up his little camping chair next to the side of the lawn and watch me go back and forth. A couple of times he told me where I had missed a spot. He's a very helpful little guy and fun to be around.

After we spent a couple of hours on the yard, I tossed balls to him so he could practice his swing (at his request). He still prefers to bat left-handed even though he throws with his right. Batting is one of his favorite activities to do outside. I must have thrown 100 balls to him this afternoon before I decided that we needed to get a few more things done before dinner. I'm sure he would spend the whole day batting if I was willing to pitch to him that long.

For dinner, we ended up meeting the Sorensons for dinner at Triple X and had some good eats (burgers, onion rings, root beer!). Afterward we went over to the Sorenson's home and snuck in a game of Alhambra while the kids played. Fun.

:: Posted by rus on Sat, 04 Mar 2006 10:22 pm
:: Filed under /daily_journal/2006



        

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