making dokuwiki useful - - cathode ray dude's blog
well okay, that's not fair: the real title should be like “making dokuwiki pretend it's a blog despite that being an unreasonable request.”
as noted in my previous post (making a website is hard) there are no longer any tolerable software packages for creating “a site that works like blogger did in 2006.” your only choices at this point are to let node.js consume you (and i don't even know if that'll really get you what you want) or to beat some unrelated tool into a bloglike shape. this is what i've done to create this site - you are currently looking at a Dokuwiki instance, which i hope will be a sustainable solution, though really who knows anymore.
i ended my previous post by calling dokuwiki “this goddamn thing,” but i really mean no disrespect, it's honestly quite cool and capable. most wiki packages are either way too simplistic, or they're Fucking Mediawiki. MW really does not want to be anything other than wikipedia.org so if you don't want a site that looks exactly like wikipedia.org, uh… good luck with that.
doku is a nice in-between option in terms of size and complexity. it doesn't require a database, which is good news for a whole bunch of reasons:
