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  • 23 Oct 2007

    s is small

    The reason I finally got round to finishing my site is that I built a neat little CMS temporarily called 's is small' and wanted to do something interesting with it. It doesn't really do anything that other CMSs don't, I just felt like making it.

    It does, however, have some fairly cool things built in:

    Media

    • If you attach a video to a post, it'll be automatically converted from whatever format you have (AVI, MPG, WMV, MP4, MOV, etc) into FLV and embeded in your post using Jeroen Wijering's FLV Player.
    • If you upload an image, it'll get resized then wrapped in Lightbox
    • MP3s are automatically embedded in a flash MP3 player

    Integration

    • Put your last.fm username in and you can get a flash or image based list of your Top 10 artists (or most recent played or whatever...)
    • Put your flickr username in and it'll include your latest photos.
    • You can set up your flickr account to 'blog this' to automatically include people's flickr posts in your blog (using the Metablog API)
    • Put your Open Source Food username in and it'll randomly include one of your recipes.
    • You can set it to be your personal OpenID server
    • Automatic inclusion of a bunch of Google stuff: calendars, analytics and maps.

    Other stuff

    • RSS feeds for each category
    • Some nifty anti-spam stuff...
    • ...which comes in handy for the comments
    • A simple way to add on any kind of extra functionality as modules
    • Support for MySQL and PostgreSQL
    • Automatic installation and database setup (just upload the files and everything will install the first time you visit your site)
    • Depending on your server setup, the whole thing generally comes in at about 2MB (including the flash movie player and everything)

    Of course, the next thing I need to do is make a site for the CMS itself and let other people have a go at it.

    Geek

  • 2 Dec 2006

    Truly Innovative, Too

    Truly Innovative, Too

    Another little little rant placeholder. This time it's the turn of the geek.

    Geek

  • 1 Dec 2006

    Truly Innovative

    Truly Innovative

    Just a little rant outlining my thoughts on some aspects of the modern online lifestyle.

    Geek

  • 2 Nov 2006

    Time Difference

    Time Difference

    A simple website to show the time difference between Edinburgh and Tokyo.

    Geek

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