Rael has released version 1.0 1.1 of blosxom, the blogware power-to-weight-ratio champion. I write web-content apps for a living, and yet it was blosxom that finally got me to launch a blog of my own. It was just too easy to resist.

I was thinking today that blosxom would be a great centerpiece in a beginner tutorial on dynamic web content. It does something nontrivial, interesting, and useful, but is not too complex to be comprehended. And its elegant use of the filesystem is a nice design lesson.