A New Beginning
posted on april 7, 2004, tag: site
If you're seeing this, the new DNS listing has resolved for you and you're seeing the "new" Maniacal Rage, hosted by Segment Publishing. You're also seeing a Maniacal Rage with a completely new back-end. Movable Type has been replaced with my own system based on XML and XSL. I'll give more details on the whole thing in the near future.
In the mean time, there are plenty of things broken right now. Don't be surprised to see missing images or strange text layout in some entries/pages. There are also some missing sections. I'm getting there, but it will probably take me another day or two.
You can resume emailing me at my default address.
Comments
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soxiam on 04/07/2004:
Hey G - Congrats on your home-brew blogging system. Would love to know more about how you've set it up. Also, don't forget to update your "about site" page.
jeremy on 04/07/2004:
welcome aboard! :)
mathew h. on 04/08/2004:
hi there. congrats on your successful move. i've been waiting for things to move over there, man. glad to know things are good. i've heard those segpub guys are hellaboss.
-m
David Collantes on 04/08/2004:
It looks like you are still using MT, unless you managed to mimic "exactly" what MT was doing.
Pondering...
David Collantes on 04/08/2004:
Hmm, no, my bad... Nice work. I love the xml.maniacalrage.net work. Very neat.
Garrett on 04/08/2004:
Thanks soxiam—will definitely update the about page asap.
jeremy—thanks!
mathew—they are, in fact, hellaboss.
David—thanks. More details about the whole thing coming soon.
Erik Price on 04/09/2004:
I get 404s and Forbiddens when trying to access either xml.maniacalrage.net, or rss.maniacalrage.net (nor can NNWLite connect to it)....
Garrett on 04/09/2004:
Thanks for the heads up, Erik. The problem is solved now.
Shawn on 04/11/2004:
Clicked on the syndication link on this page the other day, 'Forbidden' error as reported here. Now when I click on it I get "Safari can't open feed://rss.maniacalrage.net/archives/2004/04/anewbeginning/ because Mac OS X doesn't recognize Internet addresses starting with 'feed:'."
Garrett on 04/11/2004:
That's because you don't have an RSS reader installed that responds to the feed:// protocol. Most Windows users will also have this problem. Do you have NNW installed?
I changed the protocol to feed because NNW will instantly add the feed that way, so it was easy to test. Otherwise you have to copy the link address, go into your newsreader, click add, paste.
I don't know if FeedDemon (Windows RSS reader) responds to feed... I don't think it does, which is stupid.
Josha Chapman-Dodson on 04/11/2004:
Will the new blog system be open source, and does it use databases, such as MySQL?
Court Kizer on 04/12/2004:
Can we see screenshots of your new backend?
ak on 04/12/2004:
hey, welcome to the xsl club! my site runs on a similarly built system.
the xml you've got looks waferbabyish, get any inspiration from that direction, or just coincidence?
i'd love to chat about how your's was built though!
ak on 04/12/2004:
hahaha, just read the about, yours is wafer-based :D
i've been trying to differentiate mine as much as i can, i feel bad leeching of his code, but it's just so awesome!
michael on 04/13/2004:
looks like we're going to see a nice little link on the top right next to currently hearing and xPad for this lovely xml blogging system. sweet.
Garrett on 04/13/2004:
Josha—no, it won't be. And yes, it uses MySQL.
Court—I assume you mean you want to see a screenshot of a CMS? I haven't created one just yet. I'm still entering things into the database by hand. The work to get the site working was a lot, so I haven't gotten to the next step. Although, I have tinkered with a Cocoa app talking to my XML-RPC server.
ak—the site isn't wafer-based. The idea for the data model came from waferbaby. I created this site and the XML structure. If it's similar to waferbaby, it's because Daniel writes smart XML (and I'm trying to as well).
michael—I don't know what you're talking about. My system will not be released.
Jesper on 04/15/2004:
"I don't know if FeedDemon (Windows RSS reader) responds to feed... I don't think it does, which is stupid."
Yes it does. And nice to see more people experimenting with their own weblog tools.