blosxom 3 A Brief Look

A Look at Blosxom 3: zaven.us - Homepage of Joe Topjian
I need to look at blosxom 3 more in depth.

Since I use Blosxom a lot and have been meaning to contribute some work to it for a while now, I figure the best place to start is fresh with Blosxom 3. And what better way to do that than actually figure out what B3 is doing behind the scenes. I'll be studying the code using the 3i release. You can find a readable version here. If you aren't that familiar with perl, you might not pick up on some of this -- sorry.

The first interesting thing I see is the use of the FileHandle and File::Spec modules. You can read about these in their respective manual pages. If you use OSX or Linux, it's as simple as typing perldoc FileHandle or perldoc File::Spec on the command line. FileHandle is nothing special, just an object to control file IO. File::Spec is kinda cool: it gives you the ability to work with file paths while being Operating System independent.