Since few weeks i’ve been working on the next generation of this blog’s engine : Alinea3. While Alinea 2 was powered by Webware and ZPT, Alinea3 uses Quixote and Cheetah.

The database schema remained quite the same, except for the Roles layer which was added to provide a flow-engine-like …

I admit my lacks in web design, that’s why spent few hours playing w/ CSS. First looked at one really kool from cssZenGarden, then used some of its design ‘items’ and whacked a nice image w/ Gimp (rotate, matrix transforms, cut / paste) to make the header you can admire …

Alinea is a blogware developped by:

• Jerome Kerdreux
• Ludovic Bellier
• Philippe Normand

It uses these technologies:

• Python : http://python.org
• Quixote2 : http://quixote.ca
• ReST : http://docutils.sf.net
• Cheetah : http://cheetahtemplate.org
• SQLObject : http://sqlobject.org

Current features are:

• user management
• articles / Sections
• hierarchical sections support
• threaded comments
• calendar …