So I've finally finished moving my blogging from WordPress, powered by PHP, to SimpleLog, which is powered by Ruby on Rails. Did it for a couple of reasons:
- WordPress just feels a bit heavy to me. I'm just a solo developer who wants to toss his ideas out every now and then; I'd rather have a slimmed-down, simplified tool to do so. I don't need all the extras, really.
- I'm not a PHP developer anymore, and I haven't been for, jeez, 3-4 years or so. I'm deeply in love with Rails, and it makes sense for me to consolidate in that regard. If I want, I can more easily peek under the hood and tweak some code (which I've already done a lot of), or I can easily pop my own code or plugins in it. Actually I've been thinking of writing a few plugins for it already; it'd be good for me to learn more about plugins in Rails and it'd be fun to give back to the community.
- I can move this off to my regular host, Slicehost. Administratively it's a lot easier, and I just love their setup more than the Site5 account I had set up for this blog.
This definitely wasn't enjoyable, though. A 2-3 hour process from download to restyling to server setup to publishing turned into a 2-3 night affair. I was kind of assaulted on all sides... issues with installing my Rails stack on Slicehost, issues with SimpleLog's code, etc. Turns out a lot of the troubles stemmed from a borked deprec recipe, but things should be all sorted now and we should be good to go.
That's a good thing, since I've been wanting to type a few things up lately. We'll get to all of that soon enough. :)