| 2010-04-08 Blog engine rewrite |
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It's been long months the last time I published something here. I have a couple of interesting articles coming: the first about how I restored my father's old Thinkpad, and the second about my MacBook getting a 7200 rpm hard drive. They're quite finished, but I've been busy with rewriting my blog's engine - the usual situation that starts with "some fixes, a couple of new features, and some tweaks to the look" and ends up with a nearly complete rewrite - and with my job. The biggest difference with the current engine is that the whole content will be placed in the database, and the pages will be built on the fly. Currently, except for the news, everything is mostly a bunch of HTML pages that calls some PHP functions for common functionality, like the sidebar. I'm quite happy of how it is growing up - being object oriented et al - but as I always tend to do, I reinvented the wheel. Multiple times, actually, as I could have used several libraries that are already available and save some time to write content. But I'm a programmer, not a scribbler. My software is my content. And I hate PHP. Seriously, guys, how can someone pretend it is any better than Java? If only there were more Java hosting services around... 5 comments |
| 2010-01-01 Happy New Year! |
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Happy 2010 to everybody!
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