Scrawl updates Mar 4 2006

Big updates last few days to the software I use for this very blog. Firstly, an almost complete rewrite of the software itself (Scrawl), turning it into a fully blown content management system, allowing far greater customization. I can now use Scrawl to host multiple sites, mapped to different domains, and each site allows static content to be added, new blogs to be created, posts to be added, aswell as comments and blog categories too. I still have feeds available for each blog, and an XML-RPC interface so that I can write this very post, and all my others, from within Performancing. On top of that, the way Scrawl has been restructured makes it nice and easy for me to write new plugins, to host other types of content, such as reviews, polls, charts, stats, anything I can think of!

The style can be fully customized - expect the style of this blog to change over the coming days as I play with it, and each site hosted on the Scrawl software can have its own design. I plan to host more sites, for different projects and ventures, using the software.

It uses a nice model view controller architecture now, using my recent additions to xFramework to great advantage, and then it uses Xml and Xsl transforms to display the data. All in all, much better, faster, and more reliable!

So that’s it really, the only downside was the url change required, however the old url now redirects to this page (the RSS feed url redirects to the blog HTML page too however). But with the new system, I can change my blogs design as many times as I want, aswell as add features and updates, without affecting any of the core stuff, like the post data, or the url structure. Scrawl is here to stay, and soon I want to allow people to use it for their blogs, sites, project pages, anything. If you have an idea of what you might want to use Scrawl for, do get in touch.


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