Welcome to my blog
November 15, 2009Hi. This is my blog. It's a home-rolled platform built on twisted.web. Why would I roll my own blog system? Because it's fun coding in Python, and since Twisted is my go-to networking library for just about everything these days, I wanted to give it a shot at being my full-stack web server. The twisted.web resource trees seem like a perfect way to drop a blog right in.
import blog
root = resource.Resource()
root.putChild("", Index())
root.putChild("about", AboutMe())
root.putChild("blog_admin", blog.admin_resource())
The platform so far has no name, doesn't handle comments or photos, has no WYSIWYG editor, and doesn't even use a database. It's keepin' it simple. Markdown for formatting. Filesystem for storage (with grep for searching). Photos and comments will come along in due time.
The plan is, once it's a little more developed, to throw it up on github and into the Python repositories, so it's as easy as:
sudo easy_install DarkPortersSweetAssBlogSystem
Who uses twisted.web to run a website? Well, pretty much nobody. That's too bad in my opinion. Twisted is the premier network programming library, so why not serve HTTP with it? If you want slick auto-magic in your web framework, use Rails or ASP.NET (well, in ASP.NET's case I wouldn't say slick). If you want simple explicit hackability, use Python with a minimal framework such as twisted.web.
So that's it, that's my welcome intro. Stay tuned here for blog posts about technology (especially python-related) and about whatever cool stuff I find or code up myself. ✜
