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New Site/Blog

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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.

I Like Mephisto

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Wyatt
on January 3, 2007
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Update 3/20/08: As it turns out, though Mephisto has some neato features, it’s not so great over all. Seems to be somewhat of a sinking ship. I also had this to say about it over on the old blog before I switched everything over to WordPress:

3/18/08 @ 4:10pm: I’m revamping my site. What could be more exciting?! All new posts will be written over here. This site will stay active until I can find the time to migrate all the old posts to the new site.

As noted, this site is “powered by” Mephisto. This is my first time using it, and I must say that it’s got “the beat” (that is, it rocks). Previously, I’ve used WordPress for blogging and as a lightweight content management system, but I must say that I like Mephisto much better, and hosts like WebFaction make setting up a Rails app super easy (and for only slightly more $/mo. than a typical PHP/MySQL hosting company).

I was interested in Typo, but their site has been “coming soon” for a long time now. Also, on WebFaction, you can install Mephisto by clicking a few times and typing a name for your install. This is possible because WebFaction has an API for custom install scripts, which is, if you ask me, a brilliant idea. If you’ve already got an account, you can click here to install Mephisto.

Hello, Internet

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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.