Mika Tuupola

Since there will be some changes in my life which I wanted to document (you know, so I will remember them later) it became mandatory that I ditch my old homebrewn system and change something easier to use. This way I won’t have the excuse of it’s so complicated for not writing. I looked into several different softwares…

WordPress: Everyone uses it, written in PHP – the language of my choice. But it just does not feel elegant. If it does not feel right it just does not feel right.

Typo: Propably the most hip blogging system at the moment. Written using Ruby on Rails. Utilises AJAX in several places. The downside? Installation, definetily installation. It was like compiling PHP in 2002 – trial and error. In the end I just could not make it work properly with ~username/ style URLs. Then I gave up.

Serendipity: Written by several of the best PHP developers on earth. The code itself is superior but what Serenpidity really needs is a couple of designer guys and a user interface specialist onboard with the developer team.

Texpattern: This is what I finally chose to use main reason being usage of Textile for post formatting. Textile together with somewhat different aproach to admin interface gives Textpattern an elegant overall feeling. The permalink style is similar to my old permalinks so I will not loose my google status. It is not all good though. The template system is a bit awkward and the PHP code itself is really not my style. But hey! It Works™ and I don’t have to maintain the code.