NanoBlogger is a small weblog engine written in Bash for the command line. It uses common UNIX tools such as cat, grep, and sed to create static HTML content.

pros:

   * highly configurable and extensible
   * intuitive command line interface
   * easy drafting, editing, and management of entries
   * configurable amount of archiving by category, year, month, day, and entry
   * pagination
   * permanent and navigational links
   * templates and CSS style sheets for full control over layout
   * placeholders for easy template manipulation
   * support for multiple weblogs
   * support for multiple tags (categories)
   * support for both relative and absolute links
   * support for date manipulation of entries
   * Atom syndication (comes with 1.0 format)
   * RSS syndication (comes with RSS 1.0 and 2.0 formats)
   * plugins for calendar, recent entries, weblog status, etc.
   * plugins for text formatting (e.g. line breaks translate to HTML)
   * global (nb.conf) and per-weblog (blog.conf) configuration
   * intelligent build system that only rebuilds what's necessary
   * simple cache system for extra boost in speed
   * independent from java-script and server-side scripting (e.g. PHP)
   * independent from external database (stores data in flat-files)
   * includes user manual
   * multilingual support
   * multi-platform portability (just add bash and the required commands)
   * modular code base

cons:

   * slow (written in bash)
   * no comments (only available as add-on)
   * comes with a user manual
   * not easily upgradable

• Kirill Maslinsky

• nanoblogger