Following the standard tradition of changing this sites design every few years, it’s changed again. Before, I was coding all pages in vim and the blog was written in vim and converted by blosxom. All was then uploaded with sitecopy. This was an excellent setup with full control over everything when on my machine, but at any other time I couldn’t do anything. Now I’ve finally switched to a proper blog engine (wordpress) and even have a wiki () so should be able to keep things updated.

WordPress was a simple choice. It’s the best. Very simple installation, conversion of all my old entries, theming right from the browser interface and even plugin installation and updates from the interface. Works perfectly. For the wiki, I was very tempted to use TWiki, as I have previously installed on java-gnome. I tested it a bit, but unfortunately it was too slow and complicated to set up for this wiki. MoinMoin is the replacement. Small, fast, reasonably powerful with macros (doesn’t compare to twiki, but does almost everything I need), has sub-page support and most importantly has proper acl based access control, so I can have a public readable site which only I write and also a private site. TWiki is really lacking in this area, defaulting to http authentication, so an all or nothing approach at best. The only real suggestion for MoinMoin improvement I have is theming support. At the moment you have to edit python source, especially for things like modifying the edit bars.