Hot damn, it looks like I might actually finish the creation of Priblog that
I’ve always been talking about. While I really like the idea of working
with flat XML files, the fact of the matter is that performance matters to
me. I hate how slow pyBlosxom becomes when it has to walk all of my entries.
The additional overhead of firing off a python process on every page hit
isn’t that great either. I’m sure I could find a way to get around that
using mod_python or something like
that, but I think that will just raise more problems.
Instead, I’ve been playing with (cue Warrant music here) CherryPy. Basically,
CherryPy is a persistant python process that serves up web pages. This means
that I can maintain one set of database connections, one listing of the entries,
and all that jazz. It’s terribly easy to create nice web applications with it.
Add in built-in session management, and you can see why I’m happy.
Basically the new version of Priblog works with a
PostgreSQL backend. It requires
LibXML to generate the XML pages and
do some fun stuff with XSLT for browsers that can’t handle it, like IE.
Right now, I’d estimate that I’m at about 50% of the progress that I have
in my pyBlosxom install. I still need to add in category browsing and date
browsing, but those are the last outstanding features. It looks like this
time I might actually finish something. Yay.
I half feel like I’m now in a race with another guy. Apparently there
are others who
wish to accomplish the same. I guess mine won’t truly be a pyBlosxom,
because for time being you’re going to need a database behind it. Not sure
if I’ll keep that idea forever or not.
