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I mentioned previously that I began using Habari as a blogging engine, as an ultimately failed attempt to keep mysql off my system. But if you look at anything hard enough, and for long enough, you’ll find that it’s not perfect. Very close, but there were always those niggly things that you just wanted to change (and could, but it took more work to maintain as Habari got updated).
The thing is, though, that modern frameworks have become so advanced and easy to use. I just rewrote this blog in Django, to include the features that I want – which is not many – and it took me most of one morning, which was actually less time than it took to get Habari running on my server. I can’t say that the coding required to build a blog in Django was in the slightest bit taxing, either. A rough guess puts me at about 150 lines of python and 100 lines of HTML. For sure, it’s incredibly simplistic – but thanks to Django, any mug can have a custom-made blog inside of a few hours.
Habari was very swish, and certainly the user interface was so elegant it was constantly encouraging me to write something, just so I could experience the sliding-fading motions of the UI elements. But.. there’s just something about having total control over your own site, and I missed it.
Now I can go get rid of MySQL again…
