On creating your own Blogware

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.

Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

https://www.yugatech.com

6 Comments

jong says:

19 years ago

natry ko gumawa ng ganyan as our group’s project last term. ang hirap pala, hindi namin masyado natapos dahil sa kakaunting time. hehe gawa siya sa JSP pero ang sagwa. hehehe

dami parin talagang pinoy na magaling magprogram.. :)
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emer says:

19 years ago

well, the ruby demo shows you can cobble one up in a few minutes ;)

i’ve had it with building cms’ses (built a couple for my old employer). a lone genius superstar programmer can’t catch up with the horde of open sourcers :)
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Migs says:

19 years ago

I’m contributing to Roller, a J2EE (enterprise Java) blog platform. Not for personal sites. It’s the base for my geoaggregator project.
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daddy nice ash says:

19 years ago

i salute yuga and albert with all my heart. these guys are the ones that inspired me to develop my own CMS which I still use to blog. You may see my blog as WordPress but it’s not. It’s just inspired. And I used ASP for that actually… Cool for me… ;)
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demonhale says:

19 years ago

I found an old blog code before that wasnt clean enough that I recoded (hope its still viable as a build own) Anyways its pretty basic, no archive or auto links… WordPress pretty much is the standard blog now. For those that want to start one that is like WP but a little different, search for Bblog…
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Rizalist2006 says:

19 years ago

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.
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