Peter's Blog

As you can see, I got the blog running. The technology behind it is:

• Entries entered into Natara DayNotez on palm or PC. Right now I'm lying in bed entering this into the palm.

• After a hotsync DayNotez stores the entries in an Access format database

• A python script reads the database, converts them into html and stores them in files

• Netobjects creates the web site. A tiny amount of Asp is used to format the entrys inside the fancy frames. It is surprising to me that html does not include a #include feature.

• Wise ftp copies the files to the server

I was using rxStructuredText to convert the entries to html but I abandoned that because I wanted to suppress warnings it put into the html but I could not figure out how. The source is like the Zope source, hugely complex object model, uncommented and undocumented (ironically).

Todo:

• python ftp copies files to server

• figure out how to persuade Netobjects to create Default.html instead of index.html

• add prev and next to archive

• add more background info

• add google site search