Tech changes afoot#

Tue, 29 Aug 2006 12:32:24 +0000

I’ve had a skating blog at blogspot for about eight months now. Before that I kept a blog-like thing for a few years on my own server, using scp and emacs sgml-mode and lashings of elisp, and it dealt mostly with Lisp and specifically SBCL. (Before that I was on Advogato

It’s time to change technologies again. There are two reasons for this

• blogspot sucks as a repository for reference articles. My blog charts my progression as a skater, and when I reread some of the older entries I think “that really should be updated with x, y, and z which I have learned subsequently”. But then it wouldn’t be a blog, as such. And more importantly, it would still have poor navigational support and no search worth using
• the blogger hosted service is really slow at times.
• I have a new virtual server from Bytemark and need an excuse to learn Ruby

Three reasons. “Amongst our weapons are …” So the current plan is as follows:

• First, tell blogger it should henceforth publish to http://www.coruskate.net
• Attempt to learn my way around Soks, which looks like I should be able to persuad it to manage a combined blog+wiki site which manages both the “oh wow, I’ve just discovered” articles that get written once and left as evidence of my state of mind, and the – I hope, more considered – articles that might even be a useful reference.

If you’re reading this, stage 1 has been successful: please adjust your bookmarks. I will add a redirect if I can figure out how to make Blogger do it. Stage 2 you’ll hear about when it happens. If it happens.