Dev-Picayune

I’ve finally gotten tired of my poor little blog getting attacked by spammers. Actually, it was just one in particular and I know I could’ve done some IP blocking or added to the protection scheme on my comments, but rather than working more on Pumpkinvine, I’ve now switched to WordPress. And while it seems like I’m giving up, it’s really so I have the chance to catch my breath while I use all the WordPress plugins to handle the spam for me. But for reference, I ought to package up my most recent version of Pumpkinvine and make it available for folks although it’s really a pretty rough collection of PHP scripts that approximate the same style as blosxom. So why bother creating another system? But it seemed like a good idea at the time. Probably the neatest part of Pumpkinvine was going to be the switchable back-ends so you could choose between text files, SQLite, MySQL or something else by just changing a single setting. Of course, the only back-end I had done was the text files-based core.

Ultimately, I was tired of messing with PHP. I’d like to go with more Python. Django appears to the fastest way to get to having a working blog, but lack of personal free time, and lack of desire to fight with FastCGI and Dreamhost to get up and running, kind of dampened my spirits. So I’ll settle for my clever Python script that I wrote to convert from Pumpkinvine to WordPress and some time that I’ll need to devote to learning how to create WordPress themes.