I’ve seen a lot of blogs with certain ‘alternative’ softwares that are not suitable, at least for one-man-blog. A common blogger just looks for:

• A plugin that kills spam
• Easy interface
• CMS Abilities to create ‘pages’

Movable Type

This is the one that holds a competition against WordPress. MT is done by SixApart and it’s now distributed under open source, which no ones seems to be aware.

Featuring almost every ability that WordPress has, except it’s not written in PHP but Perl. Movable Type is really considered one of the most easiest to use. The bad sides of Movable Type is that the installation takes a little work, but it’s worth it once you set it up.

It supports Akistmet and other plugins you might want to look for.

Typo

Typo is written using Ruby on Rails and it’s not very knowledgeable in the blogsphere. Typo have the same aspects of WordPress.

Drawback of using Typo is that you need a host that supports Ruby on Rails, but from that you will enjoy a quality blog software.

Symphony

Symphony is not really directed for normal users. It’s more for developers with slight knowledge in HTML/XSLT/PHP. If you are new to the blogsphere you will go a little crazy with Symphony when it comes to customizations.

Textpattern

Their site might look boring and unfriendly but Textpattern is also one of the nicest blog softwares out there, don’t let it fool you.

Serendipity

I have heard reports from users that it’s really good. Serenpidity is a fast growing weblog software. It have a very easy templating system. You can gear it up with plugins, templates and so on.

That’s my top 5 for you all!

These are two editors you might want to consider in your Windows Platform, they are also great suggestions that some people gave me in WebHostingTalk to ditch Notepad++.

Intype

Intype is still in Alpha, meaning that it doesn’t include many features, except the very basic of an editor. This doesn’t mean is no good, Intype is beautifully thought out in both interface and concept. Although its syntax support is very poor you might expect that when it hits Beta it will be worth the time waiting.

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PSPad

PSPad is like Notepad++, but the approach to the design is slightly different, it also has some autocomplete tags that are helpful when programming. This is also the main one I’m using to program my scripts. PSPad is heavily featured for your daily use, the difference is that it launches 100x times faster than a Dreamweaver.

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A few days ago I was asked about the license of this smileys that I made for IceBB 2 years ago, of course I never had the chance to name its license. I suppose I could say I was going to choose GPL, but it didn’t seem right.

Usage

You can use this smileys for anything you like, not limited to anything.

License

The license is under Attribution-Share Alike 3.0

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Just one reminder, I won’t do requests, sadly, I think they have passed their year. But to cheer you up I’m working on a new fresh set. (No ETA atm)

There is PNG and GIF formats available.

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