**Note: The original version of the blog is here. I have done a lot of modifications to it for meeting my needs.If you do not like sblog, please go to the original version here **

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You can visit sblog here.

I add the tag cloud in the right side of sblog. Tag cloud should be generated dynamically according to the number of the corresponding blogs. A python moduel called python-tagcloud can do this, but it needs many dependencies which related to OS.

Because sblog is hosted at SAE and lack of dependencies python-tagcloud needed, so I generate a static tag cloud for sblog. If you use sblog in you own computer or VPS, you can use python-tagcloud, it's very cool!

The home page shows excerpts of the latest blogs sorted by creation time.

You can do a quick view for every blog. If you like some one, you can click the title for details.

Thanks for (MD Preview)[markdownlivepreview.com]. You can edit markdown and make a quick preview very very handy. After you finish the edition of your blog, you can post it to your blog database online. Not every one can post it, it needs security key which set by you!

It is very convenient, isn't?

1. You probably already have python and bottle (if not, go get it right now. I'll wait). However, for this beast, you will need python 2.75 and bottle 0.11.

2. Get SQLAlchemy here. SQLAlchemy is the Python SQL toolkit and Object Relational Mapper that gives application developers the full power and flexibility of SQL.

3. Get markdown, jinja2. You can easily fine them in PYPI.

4. Clone the repository from git://github.com/songuo/sblog.git.

5. First you should configure your environment in setting.py, including database arguments and so on.

6. Do the following for initialization:

    python syncdb.py
    cat "It's me!" > templates/me.html
   

7. Create your security key:

    python bin/generate_key.py
   

8. Run sblog:

    python app.py
   

It needs wsgi server for python!

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