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NanoBlogger

Name: NanoBlogger
Rating: 4.5 (5 reviews)

3.5RC1

01 August 2011

Weblog engine written in Bash.

Overview

NanoBlogger is a small weblog engine written in Bash for the command line. It uses common UNIX tools such as cat, grep, and see to create static HTML content. It's free to use and modify under the GNU General Public License.

Pros:

intuitive commandline interface
highly configurable and script-able :)
easy drafting, editing, and management of entries
archiving by category, year, month, and entry
pagination
permanent and navigational links
templates and CSS style sheets for full control over layout
placeholders for easy template manipulation
support for multiple weblogs
support for multiple categories
support for relative and absolute links
support for date manipulation of entries
Atom syndication (comes with 1.0 format)
RSS syndication (comes with RSS 1.0 and 2.0 formats)
plugins for calendar, recent entries, weblog status, etc.
plugins for text formatting (e.g. line breaks translate to HTML)
global (nb.conf) and per-weblog (blog.conf) configuration
intelligent build system - only updates relative files
simple cache system for improved effeciency
independent of java-script and server-side scripting (e.g. PHP)
independent of external database (stores data in flat-files)
multi-language support
multi-platform portability (just bash and the required commands)

Cons:

slow (written in bash)
codebase is large and complex
no comments (only available as add-on)
not easily upgradable

What's new in NanoBlogger

Version 3.5RC1:

Merges language files to base and does away withnanoblogger-extra package.
Bug Fix: Description was not being loaded from entry'smetadata.
Bug Fix: Archive template was subsequently being overwrittendue to invalid file reference.
Bug Fix: Title for year archives was not set.
Bug Fix: Failed to update category database upon entrytimestamp modification.
Bug Fix: Attempts to fix Markdown freeze bug (possibly due toinconsistent behavior found in various implemenations).

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6 NanoBlogger Reviews

OMG! I love this app. I have never been very inclined to "blog" (as my life is simply TOO fascinating to just give away for free). I am, however, a fan of the command line and specifically of BASH (cause I kinda know it, no other good reason). I figured I would try this puppy out. I was floored! This collection of standard, built in unix apps, stitched together with a shell script, produces a COOL looking blog site. And it is simple to operate (simple if you are at least vaguely familiar with working from the command line AND simple if you know how to edit in vi (well, ok, vi ain't simple but you can change the editor to pico and pico is simple enough for my grandmother's deceased poodle to operate). You like blogging? Never done it before but have vaguely considered it? Try nanoblogger! p.s. only downside is that you would not be able to post blogs from afar without remote access to your Mac (of course, with a little basic php you could put together a simple web based interface that would let you do just that).

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