Comparative Blogging
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The first version was merely static html served up by me as a foray into something new.
I neither pursued a readership nor was really interested in the notion of blogging and there it lay for a couple of years.
My second stab at the thing was done up on Wordpress.
Up front I was impressed with the feature richness of it all and plugins out the yinyang. THEN I discovered the high vulnerablity of the platform for exploits and kicked in countermeasures left and right. I ran with it for a number of years until my server was so painfully obsolete that it was screaming to be replaced. So I moved on.
Next came Serendipity and it's ease of customization. I enjoyed mocking up the columns and providing myself with a few back end features written in coldfusion and presented in iframes until that became boring.
I would still be using Serendipity had I not hit a brick wall with php 7 and the Serendipity php 5 binaries being incompatible. So much for BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY, eh snapperheads?
I did attempt to implement it for about 90 days before giving up in the exasperation of php not working worth a crap and the support forum pretty much incompetent to really answer my questions regarding it.
Now I'm back to a cms running coldfusion and find myself yet again in my preferred enviornment.
I'm able to write all the customizations I want and all the client ever sees is java and javascript so there is obfuscation particularly in the forms and my collection of background scripting for Apache does the trick for keeping the bad guys out of my stuff ... then there are the tarpits, honeypots, and operating system stuff which lay in wait as well.
Suffice it to say that it's been quite a ride. The blog presently only exists for one person and as long as she can read it I'm happy. Others encounter it from time to time and I am continually finding my custom graphics in various other places on the web.
Be all of this as it may I'm not some whiny bitch at UCLA ragging bcause someone put her bee picture in a blog entry as though it was really all that. However, I do maintain an open contact form for those kodak moments where someone feels the need to get in my ass about something regardless how trivial.
I don't look for trouble. I don't run from it either.