# !/bin/bash
# jdeibele [ at ] gmail . com
# What this does:
#   builds your blog with blogofile, then builds a list of key 
#   files that have changed.  Blogofile is a python program
#   that uses Mako to generate static pages.
#
# Blogofile: http://www.blogofile.com
#
# For me, these files are:
#   the post itself
#   the first page of the categories it appears in 
#   feeds for the categories (RSS and atom)
#   the archive page (year/month) 
#   the first page of /page/
#   feed for the blog (RSS and atom)
#   the main page (index.html) for the blog
#
#
BLOGURL="www.siriusventures.com"
BLOGNAME="Sirius Stuff"
BLOGHOME=$HOMEDIR/siriusventures
#
#
cd $BLOGHOME 
blogofile build
rmdir *
# blogofile builds extra directories for these but they're empty
cd $BLOGHOME/_posts
file=`ls -t * | head -1`
permalink=`grep "^permalink:" $file | cut -f3 -d: | cut -f4 -d"/"`
archive=`grep "^date:" $file | cut -f2 -d: | cut -f1,2 -d/ | sed 's/ //g'`
#
# "slugify" the category names 
#
categories=`grep "^categories:" $file | tr [:upper:] [:lower:]  | cut -f2 -d: | sed s'/^ //' | sed s'/ /-/'`
echo $categories
cd $BLOGHOME/_site
IFS=','
echo index.html > /tmp/postit
for category in $categories
do
    echo category/$category/index.html >> /tmp/postit
    echo category/$category/1/index.html >> /tmp/postit
    echo category/$category/feed/index.xml >> /tmp/postit
    echo category/$category/feed/atom/index.xml >> /tmp/postit
done
echo archive/$archive/1/index.html>> /tmp/postit
echo feed/index.xml >> /tmp/postit
echo feed/atom/index.xml >> /tmp/postit
echo page/1/index.html>> /tmp/postit
# 
# s3cmd can be installed with homebrew - brew install s3cmd
#
#
# s3cmd needs -recursive to upload a new directory
#
s3cmd put --recursive $BLOGHOME/_site/$permalink s3://$BLOGURL
#
while read file
do
    s3cmd put $BLOGHOME/_site/$file s3://$BLOGURL/$file
    echo $BLOGHOME/_site/$file
done 

• flat files are almost impossible to hack
• Amazon's S3 (Simple Storage System) can scale incredibly high

• blogofile build seems to copy or regenerate every single file
• it's not totally happy being on S3 - it doesn't make index.html files for the archive and category directories.
• there's no easy way to post-via-email or send a link to start a post

Speaking of the American dream, has anyone noticed how much it’s changed? The American dream used to be about owning a modest home, having a happy family, and supporting yourself with honest, hard work. No one vies for things like that anymore.

She certainly expresses herself in ways that I wouldn’t. But like the way so many of her posts cut to the heart of things. Recommended reading.

I started out with Stylish but am trying to cut down on the number of extensions I have. Of course, whether it’s better to have it as a Greasemonkey script seems more open to problems than an extension. You’re one level away from the scripts and they don’t go through the official Mozilla check-in process.

10 Things You should Know About WordPress 2.1 » Technology, Blogging and New Media is a good summary of key changes.

Merging of Links and Categories […] While those philosophies can be discussed in other posts, the important
thing to recognize is that the Categories table is now prepopulated
with a Blogroll category and all links are assigned, by default, to the
blogroll category.

That’s actually something I’d like to have.  Trying to make two sets of categories is a pain.  Much nicer to link to Wordpress.org in the blogging category, etc.

So I just need to figure out how to back up my blog, then make WordPress work on a different port.  Yeah, easy-peasy.  But I will get to it so I can see what the other features are like.

Anyway, I was amused to read that on the blog this quote:

In Portland, Ore., $300,000 means a clean and simple floating home on the Pacific ocean

Ummm, it would not be a clean and simple home. Because the Pacific Ocean is 90 miles away from Portland, which is on the Columbia and Willamette rivers.

100 years ago, Portland was a more significant city than Seattle because of those rivers. It was simply easier to float things up and down the rivers than to try to move them across land. With trucks and interstates and container ships, that’s changed significantly. Now it’s important to have deep water and make it easy for big ships to navigate into docks as quickly as possible. So new Portland is “little sister” to Seattle. Which never lets us forget it.

If I can summarize:

Pingback

• Just ping a blog (or whatever) with your own blogging software
• No detail about what you said about them
• Receiver doesn’t link back to you

Trackback

• Details about what was said
• Receiver can link back if they want. 

SixApart has a trackback technical doc that explains more.