[Python] Blogs

[larry price]

On Jan 21, 2008 7:22 PM, Bob Miller <kbob at jogger-egg.com> wrote:
> I've been thinking about starting a coding blog.  Anyone here have any
> experience with the major blog providers?  I anticipate posting
> a lot of code excerpts, so easy and good-looking code blocks, both
> in the article and in comments, are a primary concern.

I have some experience having helped several non-technical people set up blogs;
what follows is opinion; so salt to taste.

Avoid blogger. It's quick and easy but it will annoy you after not too
long. Not to mention that it's a somewhat ghetto URL these days as
it's home to a sizable chunk of the autogenerated spam blogs.

http://wordpress.com/ is good, and if you decide that you want to run
your own site it's easy to migrate. Plus there are a zillion and one
wordpress themes that you could potentially steal^H^H^H^H^H learn
from.

A couple of people I've dealt with really like MovableType
http://www.movabletype.com/ I've hosted a copy for one of the clients
at work and it's good if you need fine grained permissions and don't
mind a custom tag style template language.

If you want to stick to python purity there is a whole orchestra of
django plugins
http://blog.michaeltrier.com/2007/12/30/django-blogging-apps

and those would let you use the functionality behind http://dpaste.com/about/
to make your code all colorized and properly layed out and such.

> Tonight's clever hack is the restarter.  It watches for any source
> code to change, and when it does, it restarts the application.
> While I do love you guys, I'd like to share it with a wider audience.
> Or, rather, I'd like to try to build a bigger audience.

Cool;

on an only tangentially related note have you seen
http://pyinotify.sourceforge.net/

That would  let you focus on the restart code rather than groping the
filesystem ;-)