To blog or not to blog?
…or perhaps I should say, “To blog with a third party or not to blog with a third party?”
When I decided to start this small side project I considered the possibility of coding a small blog engine with some server-side technology (be it PHP or full-blown J2EE). I thought that putting together some code to post, some code for comments and such wouldn’t be too difficult.
Then I decided that I would need to add further security checks (we don’t want a kid writing php code in the comment window, do we?). If I wanted to categorize my content that would mean more coding. If I wanted to put some kind of search facility, that is still more coding. And I had no clue on how to code RSS feeds or trackback systems.
And then, I found out about blogger, google’s blog community. That was my solution! It had all the coding done, and it would be hosted in google-ish servers (thus rising my position in search engines). I quickly set up my blog there, made a couple of adjustements and we have a blog!
Alas, blogger doesn’t include categories. And it does provide “searching” functionality, but it is embedded in a banner that I dislike. And I can’t remove that banner unless I host the blog in my machine.
Right now the blog is in my machine, has no categories and has no search funtionality. That makes me reconsider my initial design… I could code something like this, perhaps better, in only a few days, barring the part of learning about RSS and trackback… Now, will I do it?
