Tantek mentions bloggers that roll their own blog software . I'm one of them: I wrote my own blogging package (the software that runs this blog) in the last months, using the Tomcat servlet engine and the PostgreSQL RDBMS. I didn't step too much out of my own territory, since I've been doing Java and database development professionally for the last 3 years: however, this is the first time that I get to do something for myself. Much of the motivations can be traced to this post from late February.
I could have used one of the many blogging sites or pre-built packages that are common nowadays, but none of them offered the flexibility and the I did it sensation of having my own solution. The amount of work I put into this blog isn't probably justifiable, especially because I went a little overboard with the data model: in essence, I tried to build a little content management system for geeks, wanting to use it for blog posts, lengthy articles, photo albums, etc. I still have many, many things to fix and to add, and is becoming more difficult due to day job constraints and, well, lazyness on my part. I'm not giving up, however.
I could have used one of the many blogging sites or pre-built packages that are common nowadays, but none of them offered the flexibility and the I did it sensation of having my own solution. The amount of work I put into this blog isn't probably justifiable, especially because I went a little overboard with the data model: in essence, I tried to build a little content management system for geeks, wanting to use it for blog posts, lengthy articles, photo albums, etc. I still have many, many things to fix and to add, and is becoming more difficult due to day job constraints and, well, lazyness on my part. I'm not giving up, however.