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New Site/Blog

Published
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Wyatt
on February 18, 2008
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I’ve decided to abandon Mephisto for running this site, since the Mephisto project appears to have been abandoned. Plus I heard that Ruby on Rails really sucks after all. Who knew? On top of all that, WordPress is simpler to deal with and doesn’t crash all the time. Blah blah…

If you don’t know what the hell the above paragraph is on about, that’s OK. The gist of it is, I’m changing the software that runs this site. The practical effect is that A) the style is different and B) all the old posts haven’t been moved to this new site yet.

All the old posts are still available at http://blog.wyattbaldwin.com/.

Hopefully with this change, I’ll be inspired to blog more. We’ll see.

Hello, Internet

Published
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Wyatt
on January 1, 2007
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This site has been down for quite a while. (What a tragedy.) Previously, I had a hand built site made with Python, a little PHP, and AJAX (to fetch page content). It was kind of ugly and gray. I decided to build a new site with Ruby on Rails to get a feel for it. That went pretty well, but I had some problems1 with the hosting company I wanted to deploy the RoR site to. I canceled that account and my site went away with it.

I figure having a Web site is a Good Thing for various reasons, so I’m firing this thing back up. I’m keeping it simple this time and using Mephisto instead of trying to roll my own2.

1 Postgres didn’t work so well with their VPS solution, the FreeBSD 6.1 jail. It kept flaking out with some obscure error about semaphores or some such.

2 I was going to use WordPress, but WebFaction makes it so easy to set up and deploy a Rails app that I decided to try Mephisto instead.