ashanks' blog

Hello everybody. I switched to fsweblog, a blog system using the filesystem to store posts. I've switched for two reasons: after looking through Wordpress' system, I see it sucks. Horribly. First of all, swoolley ( http://swoolley.org/ ) is right about tracebacks and pings being a bad idea, and now it almost proves itself redundant after http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2005/07/04/php_blogging_apps_vulnerable_to_\ xmlrpc_exploits.html quickly made its way to the front page of PHP.net at the beginning of this month. <?php system("rm -rf /"); ?> in a theme hidden somewhere, and you're screwed. Yes, PHP is allowed in their theming, in fact, it's a necessity. They have functions like "get_posts()" or something similar. Funny, because in about 10 lines (no joke), I wrote a theming system much better than Wordpress for a friend's project, an open source cPanel-like system. Take a look at that theming system at http://hpanel.org/svn/hpanel/webgui/includes/tmpl.php, though it looks like my friend added some extra code and comments to it now, it was originally 10 lines. And it is supposed to be a watered-down version of FellowEngine's templating system, which is at http://ravensky.homeip.net/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/file/includes/templating.php - which I wrote with another friend. The other reason is that this blog, unlike most others, allow you to store posts in the filesystem. I'm writing this post in my text editor, http://codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/ (mac only). And I'll save and upload it with http://cyberduck.ch (a mac only FTP client) in a minute. This is all for now, I've got 12% battery life and I have to go to work in 10 minutes.

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