I've decided that instead of using blogging software or CMS software I'm just going to build my own. All though I've used programs like Wordpress and Drupal they just don't fit everything I want to do with this site so I'm forced to create my own. I was debating what language to use and as usual I'm falling back on Perl. I will use the Catalyst framework and a mySQL database. The whole database thing went through my head too and I almost went with flat files but the more I thought about it everything will probably be more scalable if it's in a relational database. I can tag everything and if I want I can easily add a comment section later where if I used flat files that would be a lot more. Anyways, by using this approach it will take me longer to get everything up and running but once it's up and running updates and new features will be much easier to add. I'm looking forward to getting everything finished so I can get back to my normal projects and some freelance work I've accumulated over the last few weeks.
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