Paradiso

Ladies and Gentlemen, the moment you’ve all been waiting for… The Full Circles!

It’s been three years, but it doesn’t really seem that long ago that I became fustrated enough with Wordpress’ performance and security holes, MediaWiki’s poor usability, and my PHP glue code’s inability to, well, actually glue anything together.  After watching a screencast on setting up a simple blog in a matter of minutes in Ruby on Rails, I headed West for the promised land.

While I did manage to create a mostly functional simple blog and wiki with RoR, even weathering various storms (such as complete breakage when upgrading Ubuntu from 6.06 to 7.04 updated rails from a 1.X release to a 2.X release), my old site was pretty ugly on the backend.  The server it was hosted rolled over and neither the backend nor the content was covered in backups.  I’m sure a hypothetical second revision would be a lot better, if for no other reason that I now have a decent idea of how RoR works, but I don’t have the time or desire to write it.

So, with the installation of the Typo engine, I’m pretty much back to the same place I was many years ago: relying on a third-party content management system.  Maybe not quite, Typo is written in RoR, rather than PHP.  With any luck it should prove easier to modify than my older website, and maybe even a bit more stable.

As for the old content, if there comes a day when I can afford to pay someone to recover my old server’s hard drive, then I might consider doing so and reposting old content.  Until then, no dice.

Here’s for several years of stability and new content.