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Kaa

Kaa is a weblogging tool written in pure Python.

You need to have TkInter installed - and you usually have it with Python. I just downloaded Kaa and tried it out. Pretty neat!

At the moment, it supports FTP to publish content. But the code is very nice and can be changed to publish using SCP or RSYNC. I want to see if I get time to add a WYSIWYG editor if IE is present on the client.

Some specifications:

• client-based (as opposed to many weblogging or "content management" tools that require a server
• application-based (as opposed to e.g. Blogger, which is web-based); you manage your weblog in a little application sitting on your desktop
• can basically do anything Blogger can, and more
• allows embedded Python code in both messages and templates, making for powerful "macros"
• HTML macros
• easy uploading of additional files by moving them into the upload directory
• easy configuration by GUI or manually editing text file
• "smart" posting: only files that have changed are newly created
• "smart" publishing: only files that have changed are uploaded
• supports categories

1. TkBlog, http://home.cogeco.ca/~tsummerfelt1/ is a pure Tcl/Tk blogging tool in similar spirit.

   Posted by: Babu on September 26, 2002 06:48 PM

2. I like the way Kaa is done, and the author was thinking of doing more with "Content Management" which I can't wait to see how he'll pull it off.

   Unfortunately, I can't use Kaa (or Radio) as my weblog system having a few computers to work with in differring locations, I need a centralized datastore.

   Posted by: wari on September 26, 2002 10:27 PM