When it comes to blog engines, everyone thinks about Worpress. I’ve worked with it a few times and it’s nice, but it could be so much simpler! Well, I found that solution: Chyrp. A small and simples MVC-like blog engine. It is the old PHP+MySQL combo, which is perfectly fine for the purpose (means I could deploy it in almost every webserver without any hassle).

It does not have the community that Wordpress has, but I was really happy with the pluggins in the website. Comments, Textile/Markdown, Analytics, Gravatar and even a Tumbler package that allow you to have your own tumblr. OpenID is the only thing that seems to be missing.

Oh, and for you geeks, the GPL code is hosted at GitHub ;)

If I ever go back to a blog, I’ll definitely think about using Chyrp.