Time to Roll My Own Blog Service
February 23, 05 by kenrichI’ve noticed that SixApart has been publishing a lot of press releases lately and it is interesting to see how their company has grown from a “mom-and-pop” shop to an international organization. According to their Web site, they have offices in San Francisco, London and Tokyo. This is no doubt due to a large sum of money given to them by a venture capitalist to the tune of 11.5 million.
You know, blog software is not all that hard to write - I have essentially done the same thing with my ASP Nuke web portal software. Blogs are becoming increasingly popular and this year should see an explosion of growth. That’s why I’ve decided to come up with a blogging service of my own.
It will take quite a bit of time to develop, but I will hopefully have something usable in the next couple of months. It might be a challenge because I’ve decided to program the service entirely in PHP on a UNIX platform instead of our standard Windows/ASP. It will be a good experience though and I thing the performance will be quite good. Plus, if I want to super-charge my application, I might consider porting the PHP code to a compiled Apache module written in C.
