This site
Since the summer of 2008, this site has searched for a purpose. It has explored being a place for my programming experiments, my portfolio, and my weblog. It has faced being ignored for weeks and been tossed between hosts.
Let's see if this version will survive longer than the others.
I don't update websites very often. Writing a few paragraphs on something is rather intimidating, and during the school year, finding time to do those projects is hard enough that documentation isn't going to happen.
Microblogging brought me hope. Writing about things in 140-character chunks is plenty more reasonable. In the end, my own site just became a twitter feed, with a few larger posts.
However, scattered thoughts about anything random doesn't get me very far at documenting projects.
I've designed this site to solve these issues. It's made up of a page on the topics I'd like to talk about, and smaller blabberings that I write when I have time/inspiration. When I actually have time, I can organize those blabberings into those paragraphs I've been meaning to write.
Welcome to my sixth attempt at a personal website! I'm really excited about this one.
As a quick history, here were my other attempts:
old: A drupal site. - Summer 2008
alpha: My first PHP/MySQL site. Featured some image manipulation goodies that would change the latest image into the background image. - Summer 2009
beta: Not actually published, though I got pretty far. A remake of the alpha site written in Ruby (not Ruby on Rails, mind you), and used some sketchy .htaccess configurations to make things work. - Winter Break, 2009/10
gamma/delta: Two attempts at Ruby on Rails. Never published. - Winter 2009/10 and Summer 2010
epsilon: This site! It's Django-tastic!
This version of my site is written in Django, a Python-based web-framework.
Frameworks are insanely magical. They make setting up a not non-complicated site plenty more straightforward.
Django also has very good documentation.
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