On the Soapbox

kBlog 0.1.0-Beta has been released today, 19 Jan 2006. I'll post the source code when I get around to it.

It's mostly feature-complete, but not quite. The backend needs to be re-written to use something other than XML, but it's not as bad as it sounds. The current backend was written in just two days, as the backend's behavior is very well-defined and it operates in a sort of controlled environment. The interface is the is complicated part, needing to take into account user interaction, bad input, security, etc. while trying to provide a way for the user (meaning both visitors as well as the blog owner) to do things in an easy and intuitive fashion. And debugging. The code also needs to be audited to make sure that it's kosher to run it with mod_perl (in the event that I need to get a performance boost). There may be a few interface-related things that get changed, depending on what I happen to dream up of in the interim. When all this is done, I'll call it 1.0 and get rid of the beta label, but since 0.1.0-Beta is fully functional, 1.0 is a low-priority task for me, meaning that it'll be done whenever I feel like it. :p