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Now Has Dynamic Content

06 Apr 2012

This blog began life as a set of static pages, generated by a home-grown content management system written in Smalltalk, imaginatively called SmallCMS1.

I've now rewritten SmallCMS1 to serve content dynamically, to support tag linking, like this: SQLite.

Each blog post page now has forward and backward navigational links just above the blog post title.

Rendering code now uses Seaside. More than a year ago, I blogged on that. Seaside now has a cleaner way to render static HTML, or maybe that previous blog post got it wrong. Anyhow, here's how SmallCMS1 uses Seaside's HTML rendering engine:

^ WAHtmlCanvas builder
    fullDocument: true;
    rootBlock: [ :root | self renderSiteRootOn: root ];
    render: [ :html | self renderContentOn: html ].

Similarly, RSS is rendered thusly:

^ RRRssRenderCanvas builder
    fullDocument: true;
    render: [ :rss | self renderRssOn: rss ]).
Tags: content management, RSS, Seaside