Become a better blogger with UNIX (IBM developerWorks) [LWN.net]

Become a better blogger with UNIX (IBM developerWorks)

Posted Oct 13, 2006 15:11 UTC (Fri) by aisotton (subscriber, #39278)
Parent article: Become a better blogger with UNIX (IBM developerWorks)

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.

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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
make an omelette.

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'm
intending to reveal in my upcoming article at IBM breakfastWorks!