NanoBlogger – a weblog engine in bash

Nanoblogger is a weblog system that is written in GNU bash. It utilises common unix tools like cat, grep, and sed to create static HTML content. Because of this, nanoblogger itself is highly configurable and scriptable.

It also spots the most common feature of popular weblog engine like permalinks, archiving, atom/rss syndication, category, calendar, multi-language support and multi weblog supports.

It simple requirements of bash and some simple unix tools makes it portable across various platform (architecture and operating system). IMHO, considering how small the engine is, Nanoblogger packs the most powerful and useful features that a weblog ever need. A definite use for geeks who spends most of their time in command line driven box.

Source: Nanoblogger website

Free WordPress blog hosting

I’ve compiled a list of websites that offers free wordpress blog hosting, listed in no particular order :

  1. wordpress.com
  2. http://blogsome.com
  3. http://weblogs.us (no ads)
  4. http://blogs.bizhat.com
  5. http://blogtastic.com
  6. http://www.lustjournal.com (for NSFW)
  7. http://www.tacticalblog.com
  8. http://www.blogthing.com
  9. http://ilblog.it/
  10. http://www.modblog.com
  11. http://wpblogs.com/
  12. http://webloog.com/

Note that most of these free blog hosting services offer WordPress-mu version, which uses a different template engine than the mainstream WordPress. Other features and plugins are compatible with the normal WordPress however.

p/s : Please add other WordPress hosting service to the list as I might miss out on something.

Sourceforge new face!

Seems that sourceforge has restructured it’s website, and gave it a new looks. I take me a while to familiarise myself with the website, to find some stuff that usually hangs around sourceforge.net.

Personally the new website seems professional, neat and and a bit FreeBSD-like. But one of my friend disagree, telling me that the new sourceforge website looks a bit like hotscripts.com style. lol.

Sourceforge has made a list of changes to their website, their blog is located at : http://blog.dev.sf.net/

RSS2PDF – Free Online RSS and Atom to PDF Generator

I’ve discovered this website while on the internet, http://www.rss2pdf.com/. Like the title said, this website can turn any of your syndication feeds into pretty PDF documents. RSS2PDF also supports news feed auto-discovery making your life a little bit easier.

What can you do with RSS2PDF? Well for starters, the website itself has given some ideas to visitors on how to utilise them, such as creating comic PDF from any feed at Tapestry Comics, turn google news into pdf articles, and publish your blog feed into paper-based bulletin and transform your flickr photos in PDF style album. The choices are just limitless