- Blosxom
Blosxom is a
free-software weblog program (and simplecontent management system ) written inPerl byRael Dornfest and now maintained by a group of developers. It uses the pre-existingfile system instead of adatabase management system , unlike most blog software.The design of Blosxom is minimalist. It is distributed as a single
Perl script, and all configuration is done by editing this script. All of the weblog entries are stored as plain text files consisting of a headline, optional headers or meta-information (if using certain plugins), and a blank line followed by the post body. New display styles can be added by creating template files called flavours. Blosxom can operate as a CGI script or produce staticHTML files. By default, Blosxom supports showing recent posts, doing content categorization, content retrieval by date (and permalinking based on that), and RSS feeds. It can be extended with dozens of availableplugin s [http://blosxom.ookee.com/blog/plugins/registry/v2/listing.html] .Blosxom has inspired many derivatives in various languages, including
PyBlosxom (in Python), [http://www.blojsom.com/ Blojsom] (in Java), [http://www.katspace.org/tools/posy/ Posy] Dead link|date=December 2007 (inPerl ), [http://www.blosxonomy.com/main/ Blosxonomy] (in Ruby), [http://js.hu/package/blosxom.php/ Blosxom.PHP] (inPHP ), and [http://hobix.com/ Hobix] (in Ruby).Blosxom and its derivatives tend to be used by people who prefer to write weblog postings with their favourite text editor instead of using a web-based interface. However, there are plugins for web-based posting to a Blosxom weblog, too.
It has a small but dedicated userbase, including many users in
Japan .Further reading
* cite book
url=http://books.google.com/books?id=Kgz9lxh3JHoC&pg=PA205&ots=6yGR4cRCth&dq=blosxom&sig=Fw_o5uKHCbA63g2vIJcgCsLkhI0#PPA204,M1
title=Essential Blogging
chapter=Minimalist Blogging with Blosxom
author=Cory Doctorow
year=2002
publisher=O'Reilly Press
isbn=0596003889
* cite book
url=http://books.google.com/books?id=WLx95OWUMYkC&pg=PA144&lpg=PA145&ots=Gz3vi3TgT5&dq=blosxom&sig=-yl5DXZs43lX2aCDNEwmlBR5lec
title=Flickr Hacks
chapter=Track Your Friends' Favorites
author=Paul Bausch, Jim Bumgardner
year=2006
publisher=O'Reilly Press
isbn=0596102453External links
* [http://blosxom.sourceforge.net/ Official Blosxom website]
* [http://blosxom.ookee.com/blog/ Blosxom user group]
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