The story of Cherry Blosxom.
September 1st, 2005
Back in the day I wrote a blogging application. Well… more like a translated a short cgi script from perl to ruby. It sounds cooler the first way, though.
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/39115
Sadly, I was running on a Sun Blade machine at work, hosting it on that machine. Sun Blades were the first Sun workstations as far as I know with IDE interfaces instead of SCSI. At any rate, the hard drive died. I wept silently to myself in the bathroom, returned to work replaced the hard drive and installed gentoo on it or some such nonsense.
Enter James Britt, Rubyist extraordinaire, who had astutely downloaded my code and begun working on it. Years later he now has Blogtari probably the most mature Ruby blogging software. Kind of neat. I looked at the code and thankfully it is a complete rewrite of its own and bares no resemblance to the junk I had hacked out in a few hours on a boring Friday at work. I think that’s sort of neat. I am just putting this up to boost my own ego. 
I still like the name Cherry Blosxom though.