It can be summed up as a lack of future, cost to host and missing functionality. For more detail, check out my full article on my wiki. …
Announcing the end of my snipsnap/aws bliki
Earlier this month, I completed the migration of my snipsnap bliki to davelevy.info. Most of the blog articles are in this blog, and most of the wiki articles are in my wiki. I have set a 303 on the old site and shall turn it off in about a month’s time. …
Maybe snipsnap is not the answer
It was good to meet up with Mike Ramchand and Phil Harman last week at the Oracle User Group where Phil was presenting a talk entitled “Virtualisation Fever”. The conversation turned to personal web sites. Mike advised me to get off Snipsnap because its resource implications are too costly. It should be noted that there are a number of additional weaknesses due to its age. It is written in Java and while it has an extensibility framework, using it requires Java and possibly Groovy, and I code in neither. …
My snipsnap is back online.
My bliki, snipsnap, is now back on line, hosted by Amazon. …
Hello World, again
I have decided, that despite progress towards the resurrection of my now defunct 2nd blog, a Snipsnap bliki, that I can’t wait until then to start blogging again. So I have started this blog. BTW that blog was available a http://davelevy.dyndns.info and some the posts are available via Google Reader, [RSS/ATOM], …
My snipsnap bliki fails
I originally announced a new blog on this page a while ago, but set it up to redirect to my bliki. The host system, my Cobalt Qube died yesterday and I had also come to the conclusion that there are significant difficulties with blogging using snipsnap, …
Arghh! Snipsnap
Finding old blog posts is not easy on Snipsnap; it creates a snip named on the basis of a date/serial concatenation, and does not/cannot index the date against any title specified, or at least not as far as I can see. (I have created a Tag aka Category label of “Blog” but this will only listed manually tagged articles, and it seems, attribute the serial i.e. the final component of the name, which is the day ordinal, to it. Not too useful, by which I mean useless.)
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Amended, slightly, on 11th August, when copied to wordpress. This is one of the crucial reasons I decided to get off snipsnap, together with the dying community,growing legacy environment to run it and the excessive cost of hosting, since you need root privilidge to install snipsnap. DFL 11 August 2013 …
Ubuntu, Java and Snipsnap
Struggling to bring up a snipsnap instance on an Ubuntu Virtual Box VM. I have returned to the Synaptic Package Manager and am installing the Java JDK, Groovy and Velocity, not that I need velocity but its fun. I have also included the javadb for good effect as well.
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Originally published on blog version 3, the snipsnap bliki. …
Qube Diaries!
I’ve finally got an instance of Snipsnap running on my Qube and I’ve mucked around with the look and feel to give it my “Green Robot” look which my home site also has, if you like it, you can go there and download it. …
Learnings make benefit glorious blog server snipsnap
During August and early September, I made some progress in implementing a private snipsnap server. The original articles are here, and here. I used snipsnap for a number of years and most of my thoughts and notes on how to make it work are now posted to this site’s companion wiki, or to its own home site. …