The Master of My Domain

Berin Loritsch — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 01:07:00 +0000

I’ve grown tired of being at the mercy of someone else’s opinion of blog hosting. I’ve grown tired of JRoller, and having my identity and my content out of my control. I’ve finally got my new blog software hosted on my own ISP. If there is something wrong I’m the one to blame. The good news is that I’m not going to have a service one day and then have it revoked the next.

I’ll post the details of how I got Typo working on TextDrive, because it was an ordeal. I’ll just do it in an article of its own. So why Typo and not one of the other blog applications? Partly, because I wanted to do something with Ruby on Rails but mostly because it was the most complete blogging tool I could find for the platform. I needed RSS feeds, XMLRPC support for blog posting clients, tagging, AJAX support, etc. Typo had all that out of the box.

All that remains is to properly customize my theme. I’m taking the opportunity to change everything. The blog is now “Software Artisan” to reflect the evolution of how I approach software projects. It will still be the eclectic view into my life, but instead of neatly compartmentalizing everything, I’m tagging it. I hope to get some really cool stuff here in the future. I’m debating whether I should just make a clean break from my past, or if I should attempt to import my old articles. I may import as many as fit on my old feed, and let the rest simply disappear. It’s a new blog, with a new history. It’s my content.

Yoroshiku Onegai Shimasu (Please be kind to me)

Just a Thought...: The Master of My Domain

The Master of My Domain