New Blog platform

Old time readers of my blog know that I regularly change the platform that I use. Lately, I was using Google's Blogger, but I wasn't happy with the layout. Before that, I used a lovely, custom-made, Ruby-based CMS. But since I am fed up with Ruby (after 8 years, no less) it was difficult to maintain.

Therefore, I decided to utilise my AppengineJS and Nitro open source projects to create a new platform for my blog. This new version is implemented in JavaScript, the language of the Web, and one of the languages I dig these days (the other being Haskell). Even though I am relatively pleased with the result (and the clean code behind it), there is a lot of work to be done, when I find the time.

In the meantime, please subscribe to my feed and check this blog often for interesting content. Oh, and bug reports are always welcome ;-)

Update: This blog is not based on the blog-gae example source code. In fact, the blog-gae example is outdated and does not reflect the latest improvements in Nitro and AppengineJS. Perhaps, I will release the mini CMS behind this blog as an example if there is sufficient demand...

6 Comments

Oh boy ;)

Really good job George as always!
I whould like to see some of your code! :)

Keep up the good work

GP: hey, don't start complaining again ;-)

B: thanks!

Yes, release it please, it might be that killer app which nitro and appengine need !

Hi,

I've been meaning to migrate from blogger myself, and stumbled upon your nitrojs and appenginejs libraries. I don't have much experience with AppEngine however. It would be great if you can provide some examples and/or pointers to learning sources.

Thanks.

At the moment the best example is here:

http://www.nitrojs.org/appenginejs/appengine-example.tar.gz

hopefully, I will find time to prepare a better example soon...

don't forget to join the appenginejs google group to ask questions and get help.