<p>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!</p> <p>Some things have changed. This was my first time doing my own web design, and as you can see, <strong>i really suck at it</strong> :-) Yah not proud&#8230;</p> <p>On the technical part, this blog is built with the newest <a href="http://www.rubyonrails.org/">Rails 2</a> engine, following the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer">RESTful</a> 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 <span class="caps">RSS</span>, ATOM, <span class="caps">XML</span> and <span class="caps">JSON</span> format :-)</p> <p>I also use <a href="http://projects.jkraemer.net/acts_as_ferret/wiki">Ferret</a> to index the blog content, so you can make lightning fast searches on my blog. <a href="http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/Caching/Fragments.html">Fragment caching</a> is all around this blog, because I still plan to keep it running on my Via C3 533Mhz fanless server :)</p> <p>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 <a href="http://site.gravatar.com/">Gravatar</a> for automatic generation of avatars. To prevent spamming I use <a href="http://recaptcha.net/">reCAPTCHA</a>.</p> <p>There is still a lot <em>TODO</em> 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!</p> <p>Your comments are more than welcome! And if you do web design, I could use your help too (I really don&#8217;t know how this site behaves on IE). Enjoy!</p> <p>And now, something for you <a href="http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/10919">to smile</a></p> 83 finally-my-own-blog-engine 2008-01-24T13:40:00-08:00 Finally my own blog engine! <p>Yesterday I upgraded my Movable Type installation to version 4.01. They say that it corrects some security bugs, and turns the backend 1000x faster. Well so far, I didn&#8217;t notice any great speedup..</p> <p>It seems that it corrected some bugs on a <a href="http://null.perl-hackers.net/2007/09/blog_is_back.html">friends&#8217; blog</a>.</p> 54 mt-upgrade 2007-09-24T03:58:47-07:00 MT Upgrade <p>I am back online. My transition is almost finished, I still have to solve one or two little things.</p> <p>I hope I can have new stories to blog about from now on :)</p> 48 unpacking 2007-09-13T07:15:31-07:00 Unpacking <p>This blog will be offline the next days because I&#8217;m moving. Time to pack all my bedroom and servers.</p> <p>Maybe in the middle of the next week I can get all my stuff online again. Keep watching :)</p> 47 packing 2007-09-06T15:13:09-07:00 Packing... <p>Yesterday I change my blog engine.. <span class="caps">AGAIN</span>!</p> <p>This time I&#8217;m using the great and powerful Perl based <a href="http://www.movabletype.com/">Movable Type</a> blog engine. One of the things that attracted me the most is that <span class="caps">MT4</span> generates your blog in a static way, so almost all the blog frontend is served directly by my <span class="caps">HTTP</span> server.</p> <p>This now means I can resist a little bit more to a slashdot attack :)</p> <p>For those who read my blog through <span class="caps">RSS</span>, I&#8217;ve instructed my <span class="caps">HTTP</span> server to redirect the old feed <span class="caps">URL</span> to the new one, so it should work without making any changes. Wish me luck :)</p> 42 new-blog-engine-again 2007-08-31T04:51:36-07:00 New blog engine... AGAIN!