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Become a better blogger with UNIX (IBM developerWorks)
Michael Stutz
presents some tips on using UNIX tools for writing blogs.
"UNIX and weblogs, or blogs, have a lot in common. Besides being the native environment of most Web servers and the preferred environment for many Web developers, UNIX can be an ideal environment to blog with because of its Web and text-processing power. Take advantage of the command-line tools and features inherent to UNIX to make you a better blogger. Here are a few tips to help you do just that."
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Become a better blogger with UNIX (IBM developerWorks) Posted Oct 13, 2006 7:49 UTC (Fri) by ekj (guest, #1524) [Link] This has to rate way up there among the biggest nonsense ever. I've honestly never read worse advice about blogging. A few samples:
The rest of the article covers using expect in an extremely cumbersome and errorprone way to upload a single file to a remote ftp-server, something with little particular importance to blogging. And something that is better acomplished with something as simple as "scp index.html myhost:public_html/" anyway. A good blog requires -- you guessed it -- good writing. That's it. You need to have interesting stuff to write about, and you need to write well. You do not need expect, unix or updates 12 times a day.
Become a better blogger with UNIX (IBM developerWorks) Posted Oct 13, 2006 9:13 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] The only blog I can think of that manages that frequency is BoingBoing, and *that*'s a group effort that's got a huge number of readers to feed in nifty new stuff by virtue of the fact that it predates blogs by a decade.
Become a better blogger with UNIX (IBM developerWorks) Posted Oct 13, 2006 11:13 UTC (Fri) by smitty_one_each (subscriber, #28989) [Link] http://www.instapundit.com/ was the only thing that came to mind WRT frequency, but he was an early adopter, underscoring your point.
Become a better blogger with UNIX (IBM developerWorks) Posted Oct 13, 2006 11:43 UTC (Fri) by cpm (guest, #3554) [Link] "The only blog I can think of that manages that frequency is BoingBoing,"
It's funny, but I just can't bring myself to pay any attention to
Become a better blogger with UNIX (IBM developerWorks) Posted Oct 13, 2006 12:58 UTC (Fri) by arcticwolf (guest, #8341) [Link] You're really missing out on a lot of interesting stuff then. Don't let the name fool you...
Become a better blogger with UNIX (IBM developerWorks) Posted Oct 13, 2006 13:45 UTC (Fri) by macc (subscriber, #510) [Link] my primary example of a (non)blog isJerry Pournelles site. http.//www.jerrypournelle.com/ http://www.jerrypournelle.com/view/view.html http://www.jerrypournelle.com/mail/mail.html
and he does not use any "tools" at all.
Become a better blogger with UNIX (IBM developerWorks) Posted Oct 13, 2006 14:56 UTC (Fri) by bcl (subscriber, #17631) [Link] My thoughts exactly. How did this article make it onto the IBM website? The vast, vast majority of bloggers are using content systems like blogger.com, wordpress, moveable type, etc.
For my personal website I use joe, html and scp. But its not a blog.
Become a better blogger with UNIX (IBM developerWorks) Posted Oct 13, 2006 12:59 UTC (Fri) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link] Who in the world uses FTP to post to their blog?
Become a better blogger with UNIX (IBM developerWorks) Posted Oct 13, 2006 15:51 UTC (Fri) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link] Indeed. If both the server and the client use UNIX(tm), wouldn't it me more appropriate to use UUCP? Note that a modem is not required, you can run UUCP over ARPANET as well.
Become a better blogger with UNIX (IBM developerWorks) Posted Oct 13, 2006 20:24 UTC (Fri) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link] I might consider using UNIX(tm) but I'm really worried about the USL lawsuit. I hope everything turns out OK.
Become a better blogger with UNIX (IBM developerWorks) Posted Oct 13, 2006 20:37 UTC (Fri) by klog (guest, #19514) [Link] Hehe - very good!
Become a better blogger with UNIX (IBM developerWorks) Posted Oct 13, 2006 15:11 UTC (Fri) by aisotton (subscriber, #39278) [Link] I have to agree with some other commenters: this article is one of the most stupid things I have ever seen.
First some blatantly stupid advice which sounds like some "how to run a successful website" tutorial from 1999. Things such as "you should look at your logs no less than once a day", "react to what's popular", "presize your images" and similar crap.
Then the most stupid possible ways to use unix to do things which don't need being done anyway. Such as expect scripts to run the classic "ftp" to update some clients. If anybody really wanted to blog from the command line, they'd hopefully use rsync or scp. Or a script doing XMLRPC calls on a web server.
Become a better blogger with UNIX (IBM developerWorks) Posted Oct 13, 2006 19:01 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] Even if they were using FTP, there are countless scriptable ways to do it,from curl through ncftpput through Net::FTP: expect-scripting the horrible old ftp client is just silly.
expect has its uses, but using it for *this* is like using a hammer to
Hammer to make an omelette Posted Oct 13, 2006 20:14 UTC (Fri) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link] Sshh! You'll give away the secret omelette-making technique I'mintending to reveal in my upcoming article at IBM breakfastWorks!
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