There are always some ideas floating around in my head of things that I want to write. Some fade away, and others I capture in my GTD system. And on some rare occasions, I invest the time to move my thoughts from my brain into a nice blog post.
If you’re asking about what I write: I really can’t tell. Most things you can find here at the moment are about Linux, coding, and similar stuff. But I won’t promise that this won’t change. We’ll see.
2018-01-11
The journey started in early 2016 when I decided to move my open-source projects and their management away from GitHub. First I launched a cgit instance for viewing the code and set up a gitolite for repository hosting. After a short time I moved the repositories to a self-hosted Phabricator …
2016-08-03
I'm proud to announce a new release of the Rangitaki blogging engine which introduces post excerpts. Post excerpts are disabled by default and can be enabled with (re-)running php bin/init.php. Many thanks to Stefan for fixing the OpenGraph and Twitter meta tags. Full Changelog Update script
2016-06-03
Today I announce 1.4.4 of the Rangitaki blogging engine. It brings an important bug fix concerning the feed creation. Starting from 1.4.0 the feed creation server-side script failed with a 500 internal server error because it was not converted to the new YAML configuration (due to a bug - to be …
2016-05-21
Since the release of Rangitaki 1.4.0 two weeks ago there where three point releases. 1.4.1 and 1.4.2 brought changes to the authentication of the RCC and the RCC API. Caused by these changes you have to rerun php bin/init_rcc.php. To read more about this change habe a look at: …
2016-05-08
Yesterday I released Rangitaki version 1.4 with the following new features and fixes: Three new scripts in the bin folder to simplify the maintenance and setup. Read more below. Rangitaki API for working with your Rangitaki installation from other apps. Read on how to use the API in the …
2016-02-16
A new version of Rangitaki is out providing the following new features: Respect do-not-track RCC: Generate Atom feed Title fix Switch to composer To update from Rangitaki 1.2 (or higher) use this script: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mmk2410/rangitaki/master/update-scripts/1-2-1_1-3-0.sh Enjoy …
2015-12-24
Just in time for Chistmas: Rangitaki Version 1.2. Features Pagination: Split your blog posts over several page JavaScript Extension Support RCC: Write Posts RCC: Delete Posts RCC: Upload Media RCC: Edit Posts Notes Read the upgrading guide before upgrading. Upgrading If you're currently on version …
2015-12-21
The next step on the way to 1.2, the beta release. Changes: BUGFIX: ArticleGenerator error when no tags set Pagination: Localized strings Concerning the localized string: the new string are already added into the shipped english and german language files. If you use your own language file, you have …
2015-12-20
I'm glad to announce another milestone an the way to Rangitaki 1.2. This time it's quite a small one, which brings a few code style improvements and one new feature called pagination, which can split your blog into several pages, each with a set amount of posts. Pagination is disabled by default. …
2015-11-22
It is time for another Rangitaki release and on this way to 1.2 , I release today the first Developmen release 1.1.0, which comes with following changes: RCC: Write blog posts RCC: Media Upload Drawer: Key listener ('ESC' to close, 'm; to open) Drawer: Highlight Blogs when hovering Drawer: 'X' …
2015-08-24
Eight months ago I had the idea of a blogging engine. First I planned to write the blogging engine in JavaScript, but in February I learned PHP and I decided, that this is the better language for this project. The main goal of Rangitaki (earlier known as pBlog) was, is and will always be to be as …
2015-07-25
It's time now for the last pre-release of version 1.0: the release candidate for version 1.0. After nearly seven weeks Rangitaki is now stable enough to release the last testing version. This version comes with the following (bug) fixes: 'Blogs of {BLOG NAME}' always shown (even if there are no …
2015-07-16
After one week of testing and bugfixing (mainly the RCC) we now release the beta version (number 0.8) of Rangitaki. This versions brings various security updates for the RCC and you should really update to this version, if you're using the RCC. Otherwise you can wait until the release candidate , …
2015-07-05
Today is the day! I release the alpha release for version 1.0 with the version number 0.7. This means that the development phase for 1.0 is closed and that there will only small improvements and bugfixes. It also means that you can start migrating your blog from 0.2.x to this release, since there …
2015-06-12
The development on the new Rangitaki blogging engine started a few days ago and the version 0.3 ( not ready for productive use) is out. But what are the features of the versions 0.3 until 0.9? First of all there all not ready for productive use. They are just there for testing and bug-fixing. You …
2015-06-06
With the development Version 0.5 Rangitaki has a complete new look, which is based on Material Design. Why Material Design? Material Design is influenced by paper and this element was for a long time the main material for the written word. Books, newspaper, letters and also diaries and logbooks …
2015-05-13
Today I release a small new version to the new 0.2 series, which includes following changes: Links are now underlined, when you hover over them Simplified it to add the disqus comments Added and configuration option for setting a favicon Added the option to use Google Analytics The following files …
2015-05-12
EDIT: 13 August 2015 I decidet to scale down the social appearance of Rangitaki, and so I removed the Google+ Page and the Twitter account. Follow +MarcelKapfer for further updates about Rangitaki. Some huge changes happend to this blogging engine in the last few days: The name was changed from …
2015-03-29
This version includes fixes for the article links. You only have to replace the hrefgenerator.php file in the res folder.
2015-03-29
I figured out that there will be many changes in the engine which will require many changes in the files (especially the posts file) and in the filestructure. I can't say right now which things will change and what you have to change. Out of this reason. I change the Version numbers and add an zero …