What coding language would I need to learn to code a blog system?
PHP? ASP? What are blog systems (like livejournal, blogger.com, etc) usually coded in?
Why I want to learn coding: to code a dynamic blogging system that supports "categories" (basically, tagging of blog entries), cause I haven't seen one anywhere..
about me: I'm an absolue newbie at coding. Did some HTML back in 1997. (And no..you won't see me post about my mood and what song I'm listening to, so please help!)
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J3ph422006-05-05 14:30
You should think about what you want your blog software to do, then look at the capabilities of ASP.net vs. PHP vs. (other), and see which one will best suite your needs. LJ supports tags to some extent right now.
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Anonymous2006-05-05 15:43
Don't bother, there are too many shitty blog systems.
But if you insist, use Ruby on Rails, and throw in a bunch of AJAX crap just for shits and giggles.
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Anonymous2006-05-05 15:54
C!
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Anonymous2006-05-05 16:38
Assembley - make some obscure piece of hardware run a blog on the INTERNET !
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Anonymous2006-05-05 17:51
Choice of language doesn't matter. That you're asking something like this tells us that you're going to re-do the code at least a couple of times.
Try writing a HTTP server first. That's a nice thing to write in order to acquaint yourself with a new language.
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Anonymous2006-05-05 17:57
>>6
That's like saying that building an integrated circuit is a nice way to acquaint yourself with using computers. No one in the real world is that fucking hardcore!
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Anonymous2006-05-05 18:27
@all: thanks to the helpful (few..), and hilarious, so far!
I guess I'll start with setting up an apache server, then download an ebook about php, since it seems that's what everyone does to get a clue.
An explanation of why I'm going the lenghts to learn a bit of coding just to code my own blog system:
2. See the pull-down-menu on the right, named "Topics"?
These are the topics/categories/tags which the author of this blog defined. Everytime he writes a new blog entry he tags it with one or more tags. Visitors of his blog can now choose the blog entries they're interested in. Now click one of the categories. You'll see the relevant blogs entries listed below the pull-down-menu.
But what happens to the page itself? Nothing. The visitor has to click the respective blog entries in order to read them
->What I want to code is: a dynamic blog system, that will rebuild the page with ONLY THE TAGS/TOPICS/CATEGORIES WHICH THE VISITORS HAS CLICKED.
Damn, it can't be that hard, it should be fucking, but it I haven't found a single blog system that allows what I want. Fuck shit cunt bitch anal.
Anyway, if you know of a free blog system that allows what I want, please tell me, and I'll forget about the whole coding thing. Joey Bishop.
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Anonymous2006-05-05 19:34
>>1
There are too many of these, use them. Unless you're doing it to learn, if so then have a lot of fun. I recommend PHP, but please don't botch it, or morons will keep blaming the language.
>>3 throw in a bunch of AJAX crap just for shits and giggles.
Lold
>>4
With its own minimalist, dedicated web server of course.
>>7
I actually wrote an HTTP server before my first web application. (I told you I was hardcore.) However, I came from low-level programming, I was a C nerd but I got bored of working hours to get an awesome, hyper fast, tiny, clean... small project, so I'm now having fun with higher level languages like Python and getting real stuff done.
>>8 I'll start with setting up an apache server
Good thing. Do it by hand, you'll learn a lot, and you need this knowledge.
download an ebook about php
If you're familiar with programming, just go to php.net and follow the manual, it's one of the best documented languages out there. If not, then you might want to consider learning something else first, because you might botch PHP, and there's more to it than meets the eye if you want to write good code.
I haven't found a single blog system that allows what I want.
Oh, then you have a real reason to work on your own. That's how I wrote my manga browser and hentai classfying utility with the exact features and behaviour as I wanted.
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Anonymous2006-05-06 0:24
download drupal and shut up.
No one cares.
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Anonymous2006-05-06 3:58
DO IT IN FREEBASIC
DO EVERYTHING IN FREEBASIC
FREEBASIC IS THE NEXT C++
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Anonymous2006-05-06 9:06
>>1,8
You haven't looked hard enough, there's something called wordpress.
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Anonymous2006-05-07 0:39
>>12
wordpress isn't free software and thus is inferior to any free solution people recommend.
>>17
2 people at a time? You are used to Java application servers, aren't you? ENTERPRISE ENTERPRISE lol.
Tell you what. Until recently I was using a 700 MHz Pentium 3 machine with 512 MB RAM to serve a full intranet portal complete with document management and forums to dozens of people, written in PHP and using a MySQL database. It was blazingly fast, could probably have taken a much higher load, and I didn't even bother optimizing Apache or MySQL much.
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Anonymous2006-05-07 15:06
Tell you what. Until recently I was using a 700 MHz Pentium 3 machine with 512 MB RAM to serve a full intranet portal complete with document management and forums to dozens of people, written in PHP and using a MySQL database. It was blazingly fast, could probably have taken a much higher load, and I didn't even bother optimizing Apache or MySQL much.
Tell you what. Do it in Java. Oh wait, thought you said you wanted to make it slower and unstable. Sorry :(
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Anonymous2006-05-07 19:18
>>21
Keyword: Dozens of people.
By dozens of people, you really mean 2 people checking on the site every 30mins, refreshing the same page.
>>22
If I did it in Java, I would still be coding the framework, with no work done on everything else. Have you done any real work in Java and a modern scripting language to compare? I did.
>>23
No, I mean dozens of different users in my office. Perhaps that's what you're used to have in your Java applications (if you ever write any, and if they ever get completed), but go browse the intarweb, and count the PHP and Perl powered sites vs. Javur enterprise professional applications.
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Anonymous2006-05-07 20:38
>>24
A. I don't use Java
B. You're obviously basing the inital attack on a false accusation but to make matters worse you expose yourself and show the rest of /prog/ you are indeed a true newbie. I suggest you go to SH/SC at SomethingAwful until you become slightly less of retard.
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Anonymous2006-05-07 20:42
>>25 Tell you what. Do it in Java. Oh wait, thought you said you wanted to make it slower and unstable. Sorry :(
Oops. I hadn't noticed this word. Sorry...
There's like 10000 blog apps on the internet. I would go with either Typo for Ruby on Rails or Wordpress. There's like no reason to make one from scratch.
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super basic html? of course! you looked up the source old boy :)
for those that are interested in writing blogs, when browsing 4chan or blogger:
for IE: click "view" then "source"
and for firefox: ctrl+U
and rip that shit straight off. yes, it will work.
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Anonymous2006-05-10 2:25
look, all you need to write blogs is vi to edit and ssh to upload it.
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