Tag: movable type

  • WordPress

    This blog has, until now, run on Movable Type. I initially chose Movable Type when I set up my first self-hosted blog back in 2002. Back then Movable Type was the only real choice in this area and it had the bonus that it was written in Perl so I could hack on it if…

  • My Sekrit Project

    It’s quite possible that over the last year or so you’ve heard me muttering about a secret project that I’ve been working on. Well, this morning I can finally reveal what it is. Do you ever wish that the Perl community had a centralised blogging site where anyone could set up a blog for free?…

  • Building Web Sites with Perl

    Over on my other blog last night I wrote a piece about how building simple web sites has never been easier. I talked about how it’s really simple to use something like WordPress or Drupal to build a web site that will suit the needs of many organisations – charities, schools, organisations like that. You’ll…

  • Testing Syntax Highlighting

    Right. I think I might have got this cracked now. Here’s some Perl code. #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; print “Hello World\n”; That’s pretty cool, isn’t it. I wonder what it’ll look like in the web feed. I’ll try to feed my fixes back to the author of the plugin.

  • Syntax Highlighting

    One of the nice things about moving away from use.perl to your own site is that you can install whatever toys you want. I’ll eventually get round to posting code on this blog. And when I do it would be nice if it had some nice syntax highlighting. I could, of course, write my own…