Blog is fun!!!
Read just now that there are 170,000 blogs and 1.9 millions of photos posted every day in MSN Spaces. MSN Spaces is just one blogger site, if you add up all the bloggers, my goodness, it is mind-blowing!!!
Okay, those are as far as marketing is concerned, what is in it for techies?
If you are a person who is looking to create blogs, you can just register in some blog site (eg. www.blogger.com) and start posting the blog. See here to learn more general stuff about blogs.
But if you are a techy and want to create a blog server, carry on reading this post. I have tried out three java open source blog server implementations. All are quite good and you need to select one, based on your needs.
Why do you want to create a blog server? Amidst of numerous free blogging, if you want to create a blog server, you need to have a good rationale behind it. You can create the server for two main purposes.
Majorly blog servers are two types. One stores every thing in files, other stores in database. If you are creating a simple blog server, I think, the file version would suffice.
All above mentioned are java web application and are relatively easy to configure except Roller since you need to set up the database, that is not difficult. Pebble and Blojsom can be configured in couple of minutes, just copy the jar in /webapps directory of Tomcat server and hit the page (in case of pebble you need to add a user in tomcat-users.xml file).
I have put the comparision here for you to help:
Pebble
Posts with Images: Yes
Syndication: RDF/RSS/Atom
Editable Templates: No
Picture profile: No
Format of storage: File
Webserver: Tomcat*
Blojsom
Posts with Images: Yes
Syndication: RDF/RSS/Atom
Editable Templates: Yes
Picture profile: No
Format of storage: File
Webserver: Tomcat*
Roller
Posts with Images: Yes
Syndication: RSS
Editable Templates: Yes
Picture profile: No
Format of storage: Database (mysql)
Webserver: Tomcat*
* Can be deployed in any J2EE complaint webserver. In that case, deployment, user configurations, etc have to be done in the server specific manner.
And there is one SnipShot [http://www.snipsnap.org/] which I havent tested it out.
As we check mails using Thunderbird/Outlook clients, you access blogs in the same manner. I am just listing the client applications below here, check it out.
It is always best to check it out personally. My choice would be Roller, not just because Sun developed it, but programmer friendly compared to others.
Read just now that there are 170,000 blogs and 1.9 millions of photos posted every day in MSN Spaces. MSN Spaces is just one blogger site, if you add up all the bloggers, my goodness, it is mind-blowing!!!
Okay, those are as far as marketing is concerned, what is in it for techies?
If you are a person who is looking to create blogs, you can just register in some blog site (eg. www.blogger.com) and start posting the blog. See here to learn more general stuff about blogs.
But if you are a techy and want to create a blog server, carry on reading this post. I have tried out three java open source blog server implementations. All are quite good and you need to select one, based on your needs.
Why do you want to create a blog server? Amidst of numerous free blogging, if you want to create a blog server, you need to have a good rationale behind it. You can create the server for two main purposes.
- Just to host your blog, you have full independence since you are writing the server.
- You can host a general purpose blog server like other blog servers.
- Pebble [http://www.simongbrown.com/blog/pebble.html]
- Blojsom [http://blojsom.sourceforge.net/]
- Roller [http://www.rollerweblogger.org]
Majorly blog servers are two types. One stores every thing in files, other stores in database. If you are creating a simple blog server, I think, the file version would suffice.
All above mentioned are java web application and are relatively easy to configure except Roller since you need to set up the database, that is not difficult. Pebble and Blojsom can be configured in couple of minutes, just copy the jar in /webapps directory of Tomcat server and hit the page (in case of pebble you need to add a user in tomcat-users.xml file).
I have put the comparision here for you to help:
Pebble
Posts with Images: Yes
Syndication: RDF/RSS/Atom
Editable Templates: No
Picture profile: No
Format of storage: File
Webserver: Tomcat*
Blojsom
Posts with Images: Yes
Syndication: RDF/RSS/Atom
Editable Templates: Yes
Picture profile: No
Format of storage: File
Webserver: Tomcat*
Roller
Posts with Images: Yes
Syndication: RSS
Editable Templates: Yes
Picture profile: No
Format of storage: Database (mysql)
Webserver: Tomcat*
* Can be deployed in any J2EE complaint webserver. In that case, deployment, user configurations, etc have to be done in the server specific manner.
And there is one SnipShot [http://www.snipsnap.org/] which I havent tested it out.
As we check mails using Thunderbird/Outlook clients, you access blogs in the same manner. I am just listing the client applications below here, check it out.
It is always best to check it out personally. My choice would be Roller, not just because Sun developed it, but programmer friendly compared to others.
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