Eating my own Dog Food
This was originally posted on blogger here.
For several years now I've hosted this blog here on blogspot/blogger. Its been both a good and bad experience. For writing out simple posts it has made things pretty easy. However, if I try to post code examples I've got to deal with the various quirks of the blog engine. How it escapes special characters and that you can't easily do color colorization has been really annoying. Yes, I know you can do some hoop jumping to make this work, but I decided a long time ago that if I had to do that then I would host my own blog.
7 comments captured from original post on Blogger
dartdog said on 2010-02-10
Can't wait to see what you do with Mingus, I may be able to help with some questions? Where are you going to host? I'm on Webfaction FWIW, they seem ed to have the lowest pain threshold for a newbie like me, and support SSH and GIT.
pydanny said on 2010-02-10
@dartdog, for now I'm on WebFaction. I too like the SSH and GIT support. Also, I would rather be coding than doing Sys Admin and what they give out of the box suits my needs grandly. So I look forward to your help!
I'm no artist though so until I find a design I like I'll just stick with their Django design.
kevin said on 2010-02-10
Terrific! Let me know how the Mingus launch goes.
Chris Adams said on 2010-02-10
Good idea - I have some rough install notes from when I brought my site up in November which might be useful.
pydanny said on 2010-02-10
Chris, my current issue is with getting the media to display. Right now I just have a dull and bland site without CSS or JS. :P
pydanny said on 2010-02-10
Anonymous, messagecms has a really pretty website. But since I posted my CMS request and review nothing about the site has changed, including release of their code as open source.
So I'm going to throw down the gauntlet. I declare the open sourcing of messagecms to be Vaporware.
pydanny said on 2010-02-15
@stevenhaddox,
I have the new site up, but haven't migrated over all the blog entires. I probably won't do that now - will likely just link to the previous entries for now.
The hold up now is that I want to change the style a bit and haven't had time to do that yet.
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