Cessen Speaks

I am switching blog engines yet again! How many times has it been now? Three? Four? I cannot keep track. It has been several, in any case.

Hopefully the switch is more interesting this time, however, because this time I am switching to a blog engine of my own creation. It is written in Python, using the Flask web framework, Mako templates, and a MongoDB database. I dub this engine Bloog. It is named thusly because it is one letter different from "blog" and it sounds completely silly when you say it out loud.

Also, you might notice that unlike every other time I have switched blog engines, this time I have not lost any content. All posts and comments remain. That is because I wrote a simple Wordpress importer. Huzzah!

For those who are curious, you can grab the latest source via git at git://git.cessen.com/bloog.git

I don't recommend anyone other than myself use the engine for their blog, as I don't plan to maintain it except as needed for my own purposes. But you are welcome to give it a shot if you like.

Anyhoo, I plan to keep working on it for a while yet. It's still not quite how I want it (especially in terms of page layout). But it is fully functional as far as my testing indicates. So I figured I'd switch over to it now and see what happens! Bwa ha ha ha ha!