Yesterday I decided to install Typo -- WHY? --
As an experiment I installed [Typo http://typo.leetsoft.com/trac/] here. It's a full featured, database backed, blogging system written in ruby. It was another entertaining struggle due the virtual server environment used at Verio where pwizardry.com is hosted. I'll get into the interesting *how* discussion in a sec. First I should explain to myself *why* I did it. *why?* I don't really /need/ another blogging system. I don't even think of this as a weblog. It's more of a way to keep notes for myself on tech projects. I just happen to find Blosxom is a good way to do it. I have several Blosxom's on various servers for different purposes. At work I got into the habit of working on a weekly report as a series of postings. I multi task so much some times I can't really remember what all I did any other way. So why? I blame it on Blosxom, or rather Rael Dornfest, the guy who wrote Bloszom. I have a link to his ["raelity bytes" http://raelity.org] site is on the left column here. I clicked it yesterday and he has a shinny new Typo blog. It looked good and at first I wondered where he got the great Bloszom theme. The first post I saw that day was about his new Ruby on Rails work. Now I just dived into Rails myself. My recent postings here have been about the tricky Rails install on the shared server setup here. So, I got the tech itch for Typo and I just had to scratch it. It took a while has it turned out. I'll put the how part in a seperate post. ---- [/items/Rails] permanent link