To those who are web developers by heart, there’s this great feeling of accomplishment if you are running and using a blog tool/cms that you personally created. I used to have one 3 years ago when I felt Blogger wasn’t enough for my needs (no commenting). I scrapped it in April this year and switched to WordPress. I still look back from time to time but this was the year that I felt blogging is more about writing content rather than creating your own blog tool or designing/tweaking your blog from top down.
Yet, I still envy the likes of Fleeb who has made great progress with his own blogware+cms journal. I’ve also watched Albert as he enhanced his very own blog platform thru the years. I haven’t met Fleeb (Francis) face to face but I’ve known him personally. He’s our very first OJT over at plogHost and a great programmer (he did some tweaking in our internal CRM) so if anyone out there looking for some projects to outsource, I’d recommend him for the job. Ok, I digress.
Anyway, Markku used to have one of his own blog app before but he felt it was better to switch to WordPress and use his time developing plugins and hacks for it.
This post is just a salute to them for sticking it out with their own blogwares.
Seems to me it is OPEN SOURCE that is the evolution of “rolling your own” software in anything, blogware or numerical algorithm development. In other words, team based projects are the hottest thing, because the most ambitious projects can’t be written by one man or woman. I think for example that the SOFTWARE for a future automated election system should be OPEN SOURCE.