Finally my own blog engine!

Published at Thu 24 January, 2008 13:40 | Permalink Permalink | Comments Comments (12) | Trackbacks Trackbacks (0)

As you may see now, I finally rolled out my very own blog engine! You may have noticed that I was very silent on the last weeks on my blog, but I was spending almost all my free time on this project!

Some things have changed. This was my first time doing my own web design, and as you can see, i really suck at it :-) Yah not proud…

On the technical part, this blog is built with the newest Rails 2 engine, following the RESTful philosophy. With this I could give you more ways to access my blog data. For instance, you can already see that you can access the list of posts in RSS, ATOM, XML and JSON format :-)

I also use Ferret to index the blog content, so you can make lightning fast searches on my blog. Fragment caching is all around this blog, because I still plan to keep it running on my Via C3 533Mhz fanless server :)

I spent most of my time on this project writing tests and internal documentation; I want to maintain this on the future. The data migration from the old blog was a good challenge too, and there are still some encoding errors on old posts. On the comments section, I use Gravatar for automatic generation of avatars. To prevent spamming I use reCAPTCHA.

There is still a lot TODO on this blog. Although trackbacks are already fully implemented, pingbacks only have initial support. Anyway, I thought that the system was already at a decent stage to go to production!

Your comments are more than welcome! And if you do web design, I could use your help too (I really don’t know how this site behaves on IE). Enjoy!

And now, something for you to smile

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  1. avatar IncudE Thu 24 January, 2008 14:53

    FIRST POST!

  2. avatar Ourcach Thu 24 January, 2008 15:15

    The web design isn’t really great, the rest i haven´t explored much but will do sometime soon ;)

    Good luck to the new engine.

  3. avatar Ruben Fonseca Thu 24 January, 2008 15:24

    Thank you! Now go get your gravatar images :)

  4. avatar Alcides Fonseca Thu 24 January, 2008 16:52

    I have a few requests:

    hAvatar instead of Gravatar.

    OpenID in the comment box :)

  5. avatar Levi Figueira Thu 24 January, 2008 19:07

    @Ruben,

    You can change the default Gravatar image! ;) I did that on my website! I don’t remember off the top of my head, but if you can’t find how, gimme a “ring”! ;)

  6. avatar Ruben Fonseca Fri 25 January, 2008 01:52

    @Alcides, the OpenID is on my TODO list :) I didn’t know about hAvatar however.

    @Levi, yes! I know how to do it! Just need a good replacement picture :D But it’s top priority.

  7. avatar Eric P. Martin Tue 12 February, 2008 08:35

    Hi Ruben,

    Great job, I was wondering if you could assist me with my efforts?

  8. avatar balsagoth Thu 28 February, 2008 04:40

    Uau, great! And the look of website is simple and good. Congratulations.

  9. avatar Vishal Tibrewala Tue 16 December, 2008 20:53

    oh…......gr8 idea…...good ideas…...........i ll also try while developing a website

  10. avatar My Little Blog Mon 20 April, 2009 22:41

    well congrats for your new blog.just keep it up.

  11. avatar Namrata Wed 10 June, 2009 01:06

    well good blog keep writing

  12. avatar Namrata Tue 16 June, 2009 00:56

    nice blog

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