Tuesday, March 11, 2003

Server update My longtime readers know that I've been itching for some time now to move my weblog from Radio to something-Java on my own server box. Radio certainly has a nice set of features, but it feels like a CPU and net hog sometimes, and I don't like having to launch it anytime I launch NetNewsWire. I just want my weblog server up and running somewhere, out of my way... Now that we're moving (hey, we're homeowners now!), I feel like I'm taking one step forward, two steps back. I had to choose a different ISP (Earthlink over SBC), and want to wait until the static IP situation is solidified before changing the DNS. Apple finally released Java 1.4.1, so hopefully I can get a rock-solid release of IDEA soon. The new version looks incredible, and I wish my day job had such a great IDE. Now if I could just remember how to get it to debug webapps in Tomcat... I've also been looking more closely at Roller Weblogger and PersonalBlog. Roller doesn't support the MetaWeblog API (which supports titles, dammit!) and PersonalBlog doesn't have any XML-RPC interface. While I admire the efforts that are going into each, neither one has really blown my socks off. Ultimately, what I've concluded is that I don't want/need ANY web-based editing features built into the server, as I'd much rather use NetNewsWire/XML-RPC to edit from my desktop. So I'm inclined to take a few bits from PersonalBlog and the XML-RPC bits from Roller and create my own weblog server. Then again, bloxsom and blojsom is looking pretty elegent. Ah geez, I guess I'm still trying to sort it all out! 10:18:04 PM