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July 31, 2006
Point Your RSS Reader to Native Suburbia
We are now providing a RSS 2.0 feed at http://www.icode6.net/native_suburbia/index.rss20
Subscribe to Native Suburbia and never again miss one of my witty posts or picture updates.
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July 10, 2006So it is a silly pun, but it is the truth. Blosxom is a simple but effective piece of Perl code that runs as a CGI script to implement blogs like the one you are reading now. All the documentation says that it is very easy to get Blosxom up and running in only a few minutes. This is true... up to a point. I did get a very simple blog working from the included files in a very short time. But my real goal was to integrate the new blog into the existing Native Suburbia framework and that was a little more tricky.
I spent many hours working with Blosxom plugins, flavour files, stylesheets, and Apache mod_rewrite directives in .htaccess. I experimented, researched, and often times asked for help. In the end, I have accomplished what I set out to do. There are a few cosmetic issues that I am still working on, but they are only seen in Internet Explorer. If you are using IE, give Safari or Firefox a try!
I couldn't have made this work without the generous help of people on the
Blosxom group in Yahoo, as well as a few bloggers that I asked for help just because they advertised Blosxom on their websites. Their patience for newbie questions is much appreciated.
Special thanks to:
- Kevin Scaldeferri
- Frank Hecker
- Dave Haxton
- Steve Glover
- Matthijs Kooijman
- Levi Wolfe
- Anthony DeLorenzo
- Pasi Savolainen
A big part of what I needed when setting up Blosxom was examples. Here are the files (zip'd archive) related to the Native Suburbia blog. I make no claims that they represent the best way to do this. They are only meant as examples.
Now I can get back outside and enjoy Native Suburbia!
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July 01, 2005The project started last summer, but this website has been a more recent effort. Things began to appear a little every day as I worked on this during my train commute.
I am not a web guru. I am a computer programmer who dabbles in many things. So I won't say that this site is 100% standards compliant, but I do the best that I can. I did make a concerted effort to do the entire layout using Cascading Style Sheets instead of tables. This site is developed and served on a Mac. I primarily test its appearance in Safari and Firefox. It should work in Internet Explorer, but I do not making any concessions for that buggy browser.