Migrated!
Posted by Nick Johnson | Filed under app-engine, tech, bloog
I've now migrated this blog from Serendipity, the blogging package I was previously using, to Bloog, a blog platform written for App Engine. Before doing so, though, I made some fairly significant changes and improvements, including:- A Serendipity uploader script (so I can import my old articles).
- (Limited) unit-testing.
- A bunch of improvements suggested by Matteo Crippa, including:
- Gravatar support.
- SEO improvements.
- Sitemap support.
- Theme inheritance, so new themes can be defined that make only minor modifications to existing ones, without needing to copy the entire theme.
- Support for FirePython logging when logged in as an administrator.
- Improvements to how comments and posts are stored and retrieved.
- The option to use a Google Custom Search Engine instead of the built-in search.
- Many code cleanups and minor bugfixes.
All my work is available in my own Github branch here. It has several branches; 'master' contains non-breaking changes from the original Bloog, 'breaking' consists of master plus any changes that are likely to break backwards compatibility or require running an upgrade script. 'matteocrippa.it' contains only the modifications suggested on Matteo's blog, and 'notdot-blog' is the code that runs what you see here.
It's looking likely that I'll fork the project, since Bill Katz doesn't seem very active on it any longer (at least, he's not responding to my pull requests). Suggestions for a name are welcome. Previous Post Next Post