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Creating my own blog - My pet project
02.07.06 (8:33 pm)   [edit]
Hey guys. I know I haven't posted in a few days but I've been real busy. Finally have a chance to sit down and post today so that's something I guess.

As many of you know, I am a computer science student so I'm always playing around with code and whatever, but the past few days I've been scraping the rust off of my PHP skills. I remember everything I used to know now and have started writing my own weblog from scratch.

Its a really cool project. I have my blog here which is good and all, but hosting it on tBlog has its limitations other tBloggers are only too familiar with. So I decided to write my own blog from scratch which means I can put everything in that I've always wanted from a blog and customize it just the way I like. Custom style sheets, limitless PHP code coupled with a MySQL database and free HTML design are just some of the great benifits of writing your own blog instead of using an existing CMS (Content Management Service) such as tBlog.

What Im writing is kind of a blog, but kinda so much more. Traditional blogs can only be posted to by the owner of that particular blog. Sure people can comment a post, but they can't make a seperate post themselves on the same blog. My idea will change all that and take inspiration from successful community based online sites such as Digg.com where the users have all the power.

If I can write it good, and figure out how I am going to host it, I will start using that instead of this one here (I'll redirect don't worry) but who knows, we'll see what happens.

So that's what I've been up to these past few days (besides work anyway) so thought i'd let you guys know.
 

posted by: surrogate (reply)
post date: 02.07.06 (2:16 am)

Oh, sorry. You missed the change here. From now on if you miss more than two days in a row posting you have to pay a fine... to me.

Please send $10,000,000 as soon as possible.

Cool Idea about letting other people post on your site. Set up specific topics maybe? Ask people to think things through and address whatever the subject is... I like that idea.

You smart young whippersnappers piss me off. Where's my cane?


posted by: justinb (reply)
post date: 02.07.06 (12:39 pm)

lol thanks surrogate. I do have categories set up, people can view all posts from a specific category & make a new post for a category also. Other features include searching posts by user. Since it can be posted to by multiple people, I figured you'd need something like that so u can see who has been posting what. Thanks for your interest.


posted by: CherryBlossmGrl (reply)
post date: 02.08.06 (9:12 pm)

Hehe @ Surrogate's comment X) That's pretty awesome you're working on a custom site, I kinda dropped off in web design when we started talking about php in school. I'll have to upload my award winning (8th in the state! ... lol) web page sometime. Funny stuff ... yours is gonna rock ... and have cool pictures!!


posted by: justinb (reply)
post date: 02.08.06 (10:12 pm)

thanks cherry. Its going pretty well but Ill still be keeping this blog here definately. I was thinking about hosting it from my house, but maybe ill see if i can find somewhere else to host it.

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