Ego is a Catalyst driven blog package written in Perl. (It is alpha software.)

Current

• Subversion repository of code.
• Demonstration site of current version (will be down now and then).
• The Ego manual (will also be down now and then).
• Runs under CGI and FastCGI on MySQL.
• Threaded comments with persistent users and comment spam protection.
• RSS 2.0.
• Automatic Google™ Sitemaps.

Goals

• Handle images better than the current blog space leaders with tools for uploading, tweaking, stamping, and archiving.
• Edit with Wikiwyg.
• Run under CGI, FastCGI, modperl, and modperl2.
• Support MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite backends.
• Valid XHTML 1.0 enforced; guided with helpful, specific error feedback.
• CSS driven layout.
• Strive for typographical correctness; smart punctuation and characters.
• Only standards based features in the core; RSS support, yes; trackbacks and pings, no.
• Allow posts in multiple formats and convert or serve as downloads (RTF, PDF, email, multi-part emails, text/plain, HTML, smart mix of text/plain/html).
• Great documentation for developers and users.
• Easy and thorough widgets for things like daily quotes, RSS excerpts from other sites, and advertisements with a per page, date range support.
• JavaScript, sì. JavaScript dependency, Nein!
• Easy extensibility and upgrades through new Catalyst MVCs and patching TT2 template sets.

Sites using Ego

• Ashley Is a Boy’s Name.

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