New Blog!

Well, here it is: my brand, spanking new blog. In fact, it’s also my very first blog¹. It’s also the first site I’ve built for myself that’s not jut for having fun with web design (although there’s still a fair bit of that). I actually have stuff to say now, hopefully stuff that the web at large (that’s you) will be interested in reading.

As for topics, I’ll be writing about whatever tickles my fancy. This will likely involve things I’m doing. The about page goes into that in some detail, but suffice it to say that I’m mostly engaged in schoolwork, of the Computer Science and Philosophy sorts (with a bit of math thrown in), working on Haml, and coding Ruby on Rails applications.

I built this site using Rails. It’s not based on any prexisting Ruby blogging software², mostly because I thought it would be fun to write the code myself (it was). The blog is designed to be as RESTful as possible, although it falters a little with the archive system and pseudo-static pages.

I’m also rather proud of the layout. It was originally pretty terrible, and now it’s pretty nice. I’m not entirely sure how this happened, but it’s nice nonetheless. In addition to being cool-looking, the site works with all reasonable browsers (Firefox, Opera, Safari, and all the other browsers based on the same or similar layout engines) and the one unreasonable browser that’s worth caring about.

All in all, I’m quite pleased with it.

¹ Not counting an early site I created that’s best left unlinked. I still maintain that that wasn’t actually a blog. Also, woo footnotes!

² For those interested, there are several excellent Rails-based blogging engines, as well as one incredibly bizarre but still excellent one.