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I work for MessageLabs [messagelabs.com] in Toronto, ON, Canada. I write spam filters, MTA software, high performance network software, string matching algorithms, and other cool stuff mostly in Perl and C.

Journal of Matts (1087)

Thursday January 02, 2003

03:55 PM

I want it all!

[ #9726 ]

What I really really want is Slash or Everything2 running in DBD::SQLite.

Actually I'm not entirely sure that's what I want either. I just want a simple news system with comments that runs totally self contained (the self contained part is important to me - I don't want to maintain a database and I don't want to run a separate daemon).

So I'm writing one in AxKit, because they all seem too complex for my simple needs right now. It's a shame really, as I'll probably grow to want all those extra features, and maybe it'll be a lesson learned well. But I know how I am, and so if I can build something like this in a day or two, I probably will (and I think I can, having written a lot of O'Reilly's WebBoard4Unix - which is a lot more complex than I need).

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MT (Score:1)

by gav (2710)

Have you looked at Movable Type [movabletype.org]?
It's Perl and it supports Berkeley DB.
- Re:MT (Score:2)
  
  by Matts (1087)
  
  I don't think it's quite what I'm looking for though...
  
  MT is focussed on blogs, whereas I really want a dumbed down slashdot with better support for "proper" articles. Actually something more like what XML.com has - articles plus a place for comments at the end.
  - Re:MT (Score:1)
    
    by gav (2710)
    
    MT can do this. It's pretty flexible, instead of thinking about a blog entry, think article. You can do some pretty clever things with the templates.
    The only thing I don't think you could do easily (though you could write a plugin) would be articles over multiple pages.
  - Re:MT (Score:1)
    
    by frontier (3823)
    
    MovableType [movabletype.org] is hugely flexible. Here are a few examples MT being used to display articles...
    WDIK:library [whatdoiknow.org]
    Boxes and Arrows [boxesandarrows.com]
    The Morning News [themorningnews.org]
    nistudents.org...a site I am working on [nistudents.org]
    Also since a plugin architecture is now available many plugins have been developed... MovableType plugins [movabletype.org]
Everything on SQLite (Score:1)

by chromatic (983)

Funny, I just posted a comment on the everydevel-opers [sf.net] list about wanting a SQLite backend to Everything. Since we have a standalone web server [wgz.org] now, why not a standalone database server too?

I'll give you a cookie if you think about it...