Just a quick post to announce that timfanelli.com is now running "Blosxonomy-J" - a pure J2EE rewrite of the almost forgotten Blosxonomy blogging software.

Blosxonomy began back in 2004 as a hobby project so that I could learn Ruby, and I did a very poor job of maintaining it, mostly because Ruby just isn't a part of my day-to-day life and I didn't have the time for it. Based on pyBlosxom as a model, and Folksonomy as a concept, Blosxonomy has been hosting my websites without fail for 5 years now.

Every so often, I'd even get an e-mail from people hosting their own websites on Blosxonomy, which would give me the warm and fuzzies all over and start the ball rolling on updating and applying patches... but sure enough, it would always eventually lose my attention.

Well, most recently, I decided I wanted to begin updating my site and adding functionality to make my life simpler - but in order to do that, it needed to be in J2EE. I am, after all, a professional J2EE application developer. So after about a week and a half of coding after work, I have "Blosxonomy-J" - a poorly named, but very nice piece of software, if I do say so myself.

This post is to serve two purposes... first and foremost, to announce Blosxonomy-J to the world. Details and source will be coming soon, after a brief testing period here... check for announcements at Blosxonomy for more information. Second, to test the "post entry" module in my newly configured production environment. If you're reading this, well, it worked.