Hitting the wall with Blogger.com
Wow, that was FAST. I've been using Blogger.com for all of three days and I've already realized that there's no way its technology will extend far enough to suit my needs. It's a fantastic low-level community publishing tool, but I don't want to write my own patches or build functionality which is basic in other applications.I want easy categorization for posts, multiple XML feed formats (blogger only offers Atom) and trackback integration. Is that so much to ask for? :) I'd gladly pay a nominal rate to blogger for making a more-advanced tool commercially available, but I definitely see the mass appeal of having something exactly like this...
Now I need to decide whether to go with Moveable Type or WordPress (both of which I've implemented for bloggers in the past) or if I should do some research into what else is available. I like those two applications because they are on the cutting-edge of sophisticated blogging tools and have enough users to sustain long-term development. I would hate to invest a lot of time and energy into a platform that is either no longer maintained or that *I* have to maintain myself.
Of course, going with a CFMX-based tool like Ray Camden's BlogCFC or one from Sean Corfield's list would be great because I could easily maintain and/or extend it myself, but I'm not in the mood to join an open source development project at the moment. During the last year, I seem to have developed a mild allergy to proprietary software maintained by small groups of developers. Regardless of the price at the time, such things always end up being way too expensive...
And I have enough neglected projects to consider at the moment. So I'll pick something mainstream where other people stay up at night worrying about how to fix bugs, and just make sure to apply their patches whenever they come out. C'est cool? C'est very cool.
Also... I've had another thought. I might use Blogger.com for a community-based blog for KiTH, as they seem to have good multiple-user options (though there's no workflow processes that I can see). I could set-up a few of the Type-A musicians who use it every day, and let them blog about Canadian Music to their hearts' content. Or maybe a wiki? Something to ponder, for sure...
Update: Thanks to John for pointing me to BlogCFM, an actual open-source, CFML-based blog application. Who woulda thunk it? I'm actually embarrassed to say that I didn't even know there was an open-source CFMX community. It turns out they even have CFOpen.org as a repository for their projects.
2 Comments:
yo yo
have you looked at textpattern
here
It has serious plug-ins a great support community and is pretty breezy to work with.
I use both MT and it, a lot of people I know seem to dore wordpress so I guess I should find some reason to use that so I can talk about its merits vs the other twos with some kin dof expertise.
but anyways check out textpattern, it's been my software crush of 2004/2005
oh yes it's miriam btw. that's the other pooh-stick about blogger if you aren't a member you are anonymous
hey thanks for posting about BlogCFM =) I wrote it because I needed a full featured blog app, and I didn't feel like I should have to pay for one. Ray Camden's blogCFC lacked some features that I desired (photo blogs, user authentication options, admin console, etc), and BlogFusion was a commercial product. So, after a few weeks of not getting any real work done, BlogCFM was born =)
It's a little poor on the technogeek features, as I'm not a hardcore blogger, but I did just add automated ping functionality into the as yet unreleased version 1.1.
Rick Root
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