Libcoffee.net Blog Engine

Author

Jerry Chong

Contact

zanglang@gmail.com

Website

http://www.libcoffee.net/

Version

0.2 (perpetually alpha ;)

Copyright

Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike

1. Introduction

This is the codebase used for the blog application at http://www.libcoffee.net/. Libcoffee.net is now written using the Flask microframework, and is intended to be run on a Google App Engine account.

2. Features

Basic features:

• Basic blog publishing with plain URLs eg 'blog/2009/12/31/slug'
• Content markup with reStructuredText, Markdown and Textile
• Clean default template with Bootstrap CSS, hAtom microformats
• Code block syntax highlighting

Several features have been dropped or 'unimplemented' in favor of using third-party services, or due to deprecation:

• Post creation and editing (via Google App Engine administration)
• Comments, email notifications and spam checking (via Disqus)
• Email notifications of new comments (via Disqus)
• Scheduled datastore backup via Blobstore (via Google App Engine cron jobs)

Work-in-progress:

• Movable Type/MetaWeblog API

3. Installation

Libcoffee.net depends on the AppEngine Python SDK, the excellent flask-appengine-template, as well as a few Python libraries.

If you've cloned this repository from Github, flask-appengine-template should already have been linked as a git submodule. To populate the folder:

git submodule update --init flask-appengine-template

Symlink or copy out everything under flask-appengine-template/src to the main folder. Python modules under 4. Dependencies can be symlinked/copied to the 'lib' folder, the app will pick them up automatically.

After that, it's the same as starting up AppEngine's development server:

echo 'Just running the dev server'
google_appengine/dev_appserver.py .
echo 'and uploading to AppEngine...'
google_appengine/appcfg.py update .

4. Dependencies

• flask-appengine-template
• Google App Engine SDK (latest)

Install with Python package manager of choice:

• BeautifulSoup.py

• docutils

  • roman.py also needs to be copied separately into the lib folder.

• markdown
• pygments
• textile

5. Changelog

• 0.2: Major rewrite, now based on Flask/Werkzeug
• 0.1: Initial release with Django

6. License

Libcoffee.net is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license.

All third-party parts shamelessly included here are distributed under their respective licenses.