Re: Interest in a Full Featured Clojure Blog Engine

2016-03-27 Thread Timothy Washington
Ah just seeing this now. Duplicating a response to Nate, as I thought it was just in my inbox. While I did get some initial interest, subsequent requests for an architectural review (see here and he

Re: Interest in a Full Featured Clojure Blog Engine

2016-03-26 Thread Adei Josol
Another is Cryogen , which is on Leiningen instead of Boot. On Thursday, 24 March 2016 20:29:18 UTC, uns...@gmail.com wrote: > > I ran across this today: Perun > > On Thursday, 18 July 2013 08:24:06 UTC-6, frye wrot

Re: Interest in a Full Featured Clojure Blog Engine

2016-03-24 Thread unst...@gmail.com
I ran across this today: Perun On Thursday, 18 July 2013 08:24:06 UTC-6, frye wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm thinking of how to build a composable blogging engine in Clojure. > There have been a few attempts at this, with cow-blog >

Re: Interest in a Full Featured Clojure Blog Engine

2016-03-23 Thread Nate B
// , What ended up happening with this? My company and I could really use a full featured blogging engine in Clojure. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/clojure/rCmPYa0Vw-4 On Thursday, July 18, 2013 at 7:24:06 AM UTC-7, frye wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm thinking of how to build a composa

Re: Interest in a Full Featured Clojure Blog Engine

2013-07-24 Thread Timothy Washington
Oh nice. I like the look of devs . So I've put together some rudimentary work for Stefon. Just some basic CRUD + find + list. I had a think about how to tie together the different domain entities. And internally, I think relation

Re: Interest in a Full Featured Clojure Blog Engine

2013-07-23 Thread Manuel Paccagnella
Il giorno martedì 23 luglio 2013 04:11:48 UTC+2, frye ha scritto: > > Hey all, > > > *A)* Thanks for all the feedback on this topic. There's a few interesting > things here. Notably that there are at least these existing blog engines: > >- http://github.com/bitemyapp/neubite (apparently nee

Re: Interest in a Full Featured Clojure Blog Engine

2013-07-23 Thread Manuel Paccagnella
Il giorno martedì 23 luglio 2013 03:32:52 UTC+2, frye ha scritto: > > > > > On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 5:16 PM, Manuel Paccagnella < > manuel.pa...@gmail.com > wrote: >> >> >>>- what I should use to model workflow; possibly >>> lamina >>>? >>> >>> I'

Re: Interest in a Full Featured Clojure Blog Engine

2013-07-22 Thread Timothy Washington
Hey all, *A)* Thanks for all the feedback on this topic. There's a few interesting things here. Notably that there are at least these existing blog engines: - http://github.com/bitemyapp/neubite (apparently needs a WYSIWYG editor) - https://github.com/yogthos/yuggoth (although this adverti

Re: Interest in a Full Featured Clojure Blog Engine

2013-07-22 Thread Timothy Washington
On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 5:16 PM, Manuel Paccagnella < manuel.paccagne...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >>- what I should use to model workflow; possibly >> lamina >>? >> >> I'm not sure Lamina is the right tool for this job. What are your ideas > for modeling an

Re: Interest in a Full Featured Clojure Blog Engine

2013-07-22 Thread Manuel Paccagnella
There is also Yuggoth: https://github.com/yogthos/yuggoth It's pretty feature-complete as I can see, but I haven't looked at the source for its the architecture. Trivia: It has been written starting with Luminus, and the author is writing a book about web development in Clojure for The Pragmati

Re: Interest in a Full Featured Clojure Blog Engine

2013-07-22 Thread Chris Wilson
There is a Clojure static site generator, Misaki: http://liquidz.github.io/misaki/ Which has a bunch of nice features including swappable templates, although the non-standard ones need a little love. Chris On 22 July 2013 07:12, Keith Irwin wrote: > On Jul 21, 2013, at 10:01 PM, Colin Flemin

Re: Interest in a Full Featured Clojure Blog Engine

2013-07-21 Thread Keith Irwin
On Jul 21, 2013, at 10:01 PM, Colin Fleming wrote: > I'm a fan of static generators too, but one large con for a lot of people is > lack of commenting. Personally I like the article-with-no-comments format, > but it's not for everyone. You can use Disqus or similar, but it has its own > issues

Re: Interest in a Full Featured Clojure Blog Engine

2013-07-21 Thread Colin Fleming
I'm a fan of static generators too, but one large con for a lot of people is lack of commenting. Personally I like the article-with-no-comments format, but it's not for everyone. You can use Disqus or similar, but it has its own issues starting with the fact that you give all your data to someone e

Re: Interest in a Full Featured Clojure Blog Engine

2013-07-21 Thread Steven Degutis
The more I think about the static blog generator idea, the more I think it's different enough to be a separate project. But anyway, I already wrote this list of pros/cons to why I think static blog generators are better, so might as well post it: Pros: - Runs anywhere you can host HTML, such

Re: Interest in a Full Featured Clojure Blog Engine

2013-07-21 Thread Steven Degutis
Lately, a lot of people are moving away from dynamic blog engines like Wordpress, and starting to use static blog generators like Jekyll. You may want to consider this route instead. I'm sure a plugin system would still be relevant and useful for a static blog generator. -Steven On Thu, Jul 18,

Re: Interest in a Full Featured Clojure Blog Engine

2013-07-21 Thread Manuel Paccagnella
Il giorno domenica 21 luglio 2013 01:09:48 UTC+2, frye ha scritto: > > Cool. I'm very open to any help you can offer. Right now, I'm working > through: > > >- if / how to attach assets (images, etc) to .rtf or .md file formats (see > > here

Re: Interest in a Full Featured Clojure Blog Engine

2013-07-21 Thread Timothy Washington
Ooh. Ok, lemme check it out. On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 10:34 PM, Chris Allen wrote: > http://github.com/bitemyapp/neubite/ > > Could probably use a WYSIWYG editor, beyond that, pretty serviceable. > > > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure"

Re: Interest in a Full Featured Clojure Blog Engine

2013-07-20 Thread Chris Allen
http://github.com/bitemyapp/neubite/ Could probably use a WYSIWYG editor, beyond that, pretty serviceable. On Thursday, July 18, 2013 7:24:06 AM UTC-7, frye wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm thinking of how to build a composable blogging engine in Clojure. > There have been a few attempts at this, with

Re: Interest in a Full Featured Clojure Blog Engine

2013-07-20 Thread Timothy Washington
Cool. I'm very open to any help you can offer. Right now, I'm working through: - if / how to attach assets (images, etc) to .rtf or .md file formats (see here ) - how to cleanly model entity rel

Re: Interest in a Full Featured Clojure Blog Engine

2013-07-20 Thread Timothy Washington
On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 1:13 AM, James Ashley wrote: > > From the peanut gallery: > > I think this basic idea sounds fabulous. I've been kicking clojure's > tires, and I keep meaning to slap a blog engine together. But then I go > into tailspin because I want to blog about the experience, but my b

Re: Interest in a Full Featured Clojure Blog Engine

2013-07-20 Thread Manuel Paccagnella
Interesting +1 I've slammed together some quick and dirty Clojure code and wrote my own little blog engine (I'll not link the repo, the code is... well quick&dirty: I needed something running quickly). But it has the bare minimum and I didn't find any real feature complete blog engine as the on

Re: Interest in a Full Featured Clojure Blog Engine

2013-07-19 Thread James Ashley
>From the peanut gallery: I think this basic idea sounds fabulous. I've been kicking clojure's tires, and I keep meaning to slap a blog engine together. But then I go into tailspin because I want to blog about the experience, but my blogs are down and I don't want to go through setting up WP y

Re: Interest in a Full Featured Clojure Blog Engine

2013-07-19 Thread Chas Emerick
On Jul 19, 2013, at 2:46 PM, Timothy Washington wrote: > I've deliberately proposed a small core, so that you can use only the pieces > you absolutely need. Additionally, I think it encourages a clean design, > forcing explicit interaction semantics between system components. If we > accept thi

Re: Interest in a Full Featured Clojure Blog Engine

2013-07-19 Thread Timothy Washington
Ok, that makes sense. Thanks Chas. On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 7:53 PM, Chas Emerick wrote: > On Jul 19, 2013, at 2:46 PM, Timothy Washington wrote: > > I've deliberately proposed a small core, so that you can use only the > pieces you absolutely need. Additionally, I think it encourages a clean >

Re: Interest in a Full Featured Clojure Blog Engine

2013-07-19 Thread Timothy Washington
My spidey sense is that the proposed data types (posts, assets, tags, comments too ?), will have to be handled differently. What I plan to do though, is go through some basic workflow cases, and work out the best data relationships. That's the point at which I think common data types could be unif

Re: Interest in a Full Featured Clojure Blog Engine

2013-07-19 Thread Timothy Washington
Ok, so I've thought a little more about the architecture of a Clojure-based, composable blogging system. I put up my initial notes in this github repo: Stefon . I've ordered the system components, based on core functionality, outwards. - There would just be a

Re: Interest in a Full Featured Clojure Blog Engine

2013-07-19 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On 07/19/2013 08:46 PM, Timothy Washington wrote: There would just be a core data model of posts, assets and tags, that would exists as definitions, and could be pulled into a runtime soup. How about unifying everything that may be mapped to its own URL as "resource"? Such a resource would hav

Re: Interest in a Full Featured Clojure Blog Engine

2013-07-18 Thread Timothy Washington
Hadn't thought about spam detection, comment design, or versioning. But I like the ideas a lot. I'll design with these features in mind. On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Thorsten Wilms wrote: > On 07/18/2013 04:24 PM, Timothy Washington wrote: > >> I know that I currently wish I had a Clojur

Re: Interest in a Full Featured Clojure Blog Engine

2013-07-18 Thread Timothy Washington
Hadn't thought about it along those lines. But I'm glad you brought it up. Ok. On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Mikera wrote: > It sounds like a great project. > > I think the challenge will be the making the different pieces fit together > neatly: there are lots of somewhat-overlapping librar

Re: Interest in a Full Featured Clojure Blog Engine

2013-07-18 Thread Timothy Washington
Too right. Ok, I'll factor that in. On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Gary Trakhman wrote: > Django's pretty good at this with it's auto-gen'd Admin interface, if we > had something comparable it would be compelling to a large audience, but I > worry that it becomes 'frameworky' at a certain po

Re: Interest in a Full Featured Clojure Blog Engine

2013-07-18 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On 07/18/2013 04:24 PM, Timothy Washington wrote: I know that I currently wish I had a Clojure weblog engine that I could stick into a site I'm building. If there's already something available, I'll obviously just use that. But otherwise, is this something that would be interesting to people? O

Re: Interest in a Full Featured Clojure Blog Engine

2013-07-18 Thread Mikera
It sounds like a great project. I think the challenge will be the making the different pieces fit together neatly: there are lots of somewhat-overlapping libraries and I don't think anyone has yet figured out the right way to plug everything together - at least in the sense that "composability"

Re: Interest in a Full Featured Clojure Blog Engine

2013-07-18 Thread Gary Trakhman
Django's pretty good at this with it's auto-gen'd Admin interface, if we had something comparable it would be compelling to a large audience, but I worry that it becomes 'frameworky' at a certain point, and clojure has a bias against that. On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Timothy Washington wrot

Re: Interest in a Full Featured Clojure Blog Engine

2013-07-18 Thread Timothy Washington
Ok, I'll start to flesh this out a little more - overall architecture, 3rd-party libs, etc. And I'll get some more of your feedback from there. Please add anymore ideas to this effect, if you have them. More soon Tim Washington Interruptsoftware.ca / Bkeeping.com On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 10:55

Re: Interest in a Full Featured Clojure Blog Engine

2013-07-18 Thread Michael Fogus
That's what I hoped you meant. Sounds fun. On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Timothy Washington wrote: > Ah, by composable, I meant you could choose to only use a core server > component, posting txt entries, let's say with an in-memory data store ( who > knows.. it's your blog :). And if you wan

Re: Interest in a Full Featured Clojure Blog Engine

2013-07-18 Thread Timothy Washington
Ah, by *composable*, I meant you could choose to only use a core server component, posting txt entries, let's say with an in-memory data store ( who knows.. it's your blog :). And if you want a little more, you can choose to add a DB adapter out to Datomic, and Import / Export support. This is all

Re: Interest in a Full Featured Clojure Blog Engine

2013-07-18 Thread Mayank Jain
+1. I also have been thinking about the same. Would be interesting to see how you do it. On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 8:14 PM, Timothy Washington wrote: > Ah, by *composable*, I meant you could choose to only use a core server > component, posting txt entries, let's say with an in-memory data store

Re: Interest in a Full Featured Clojure Blog Engine

2013-07-18 Thread Michael Fogus
Quick answer: Yes. I'd love to see a legitimate, maintained Clojure-based blogging engine. I have one question: what does "composable blogging engine" mean? On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Timothy Washington wrote: > Hello, > > I'm thinking of how to build a composable blogging engine in Clo

Interest in a Full Featured Clojure Blog Engine

2013-07-18 Thread Timothy Washington
Hello, I'm thinking of how to build a composable blogging engine in Clojure. There have been a few attempts at this, with cow-blogand my-blog . But these seem to be abandoned, and not heavily used. Vijay Kiran, las