I’ll be moving the entire weblog to ByteFlow (a python based blogging engine) as compared to wordpress, what it’s currently running on, over a period of two months.
The main reason for this change is I want to use a more barebones blogging service. I’ve seen the wordpress code and modified it a lot, but it is *huge*. Support for plugins, and some other considerations make the design very large and not sufficiently scalable.
I’ll first be contributing to byteflow and making sure it works pretty well, since it’s very new and not mature enough yet, but at the same time, since it’s in django, adding services are a breeze.
I’m hoping to write an importer for wordpress’ extended rss dump format, so migrating is a lot simpler and other people might also find it useful.
Django’s starting to look very nice and is nearing it’s gold 1.0 release, and I’m eagerly looking forward for that, when I’ll shift my site to a simple python based hosting or google appengine and pay only for the disk space and processor that I use.
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