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Saturday, September 29th, 2007

Whird Prototype - Time to Branch

CrunchBang.org is currently served up by an early prototype of a new PHP blogging application. I'm creating the application [which I've provisionally named Whird] on my development server at home. I mention this because I've now reached a point where I need to make a decision.

An issue and potential problem has arisen due to the fact that I've been developing the application in the style of this here site. While this hasn't given me any problems so far, I don't want cause any additional work for myself in the future. I need to branch the project so that any customisations that I make specific to CrunchBang.org don't slip into the final project.

I guess this is a milestone in this projects history; from now on I'll be writing for a more generic code base. Hopefully it'll stop things from getting too messy round here.

Tagged with: programming, projects, whird

5 Responses to “Whird Prototype - Time to Branch”

Nader wrote, Sunday, October 14th, 2007

cool, sounds like an interesting project. i'm currently using wordpress and wondering what motivated you to code whird. can you tell the benefits/differences yet?

greetings from berlin, nader
Philip wrote, Sunday, October 14th, 2007

Well, I've been working on Whird for a month or two now. I started it as pet project and experiment in web publishing.

My main motivation behind starting it was simply to try something different. I've tried both Wordpress and MovableType and I like both. However, I wanted a blogging tool that would be lighter and more akin to a native Linux/Unix application in operation.

One of the biggest benefits to using Whird has been speed. There is no real backend administration so to speak and this makes using it a breeze. Hopefully I'll get some screencasts of the prototype up soon.

Thanks for your interest.
dare2dreamer wrote, Sunday, October 14th, 2007

So, are you planning on making your shiny new code public at some point?
Philip wrote, Sunday, October 14th, 2007

Yes, I'm just waiting to get to that point where the application works — I'm not too bothered about polishing it. Also, I've yet to write any installation scripts, which could be a major show stopper :)
mWm wrote, Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

Well, seems I'm not the only one making literally from zero, a blog system. I made mine too also with a feed generator and in the last updates, comments and albums systems. You can check it at http://mwmwdev.com. Cheers.

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