Tuesday, October 05, 2004

The Apache Jakarta Tomcat 5 Servlet/JSP Container - Tomcat Setup on Windows

The Apache Jakarta Tomcat 5 Servlet/JSP Container - Tomcat Setup

These are not super user friendly web sites. I assume the download package ending in .exe is the windows installer package :-).

Blojsom quick start

blojsom Quickstart - Confluence

1. Install latest version of JRE from www.java.com (1.4.2)
2. Install Tomcat
3. Drop WAR file into Tomcat.

Start.

UPDATE: In order for the blog to display on any machine but the one it's installed on, you have to configure the URL in the weblog settings with the fully specified name. Otherwise you get part of the blog -- but no style sheets. Looks ugly.

Defaults to port 8080. I need to figure out how to change that to port 80.

I'm figuring out what blog tool to use and looking for a bookmarklet or firefox extension.

Open Source Blog server bundled in OS X Tiger

About blojsom - Confluence

This looks very intriguing.

David Mattison's Tiki Wiki Hut : Blog Authoring/Publishing Software

Welcome to David Mattison's Tiki Wiki Hut : Blog Authoring/Publishing Software
Another comprehensive collection. I think I'm getting to the end of scoping these things.

Best (so far) directory of blog software

Blog Software Breakdown

Why doesn't anyone put dates on anything any more? Still, this is pretty neat.

ONE/Northwest KnowledgeBase: Offline blogging tools - Zempt and SharpMT for Movable Type

ONE/Northwest KnowledgeBase: Offline blogging tools

First of all, this is an interesting knowledge resource. Secondly Blogger holds up rather well in terms of the simplicity/functionality wars. Thirdly, the blogging/RSS/syndication world is still very raw.

Update: Sigh. Really dated.

ecto blog

ecto blog

At the moment probably the most popular OS X client. I think NetNewsWire is moving into this space.