edge of sanity

After spending a bit of time becoming familiar with the Mojolicious way of doing things, I think I finally have a grasp of how to handle it. It's a bit less framework than something like Catalyst, but you don't always need a Nuclear Weapon to handle things like a blog.

I think this will be a much more productive system for blogging as I can easily control publish date years, months, weeks, or days into the future. I also have all the flexibility of Markdown and can use any text editor to blog with.

More good things to come ..

I started out looking for a decent Perl blogging platform. While there are several very complete and interesting contenders, I ultimately rolled my own. I mean, can you really be a professional Perl Programmer without having reinvented a bloggin platform?

The main objectives for this software was a file system-based blogging platform that utilized Markdown to generate pretty HTML pages. There were some customizations done to the Markdown syntax to allow for application meta-data, tagging, and things like this "read more" break that you're about to experience ...